News tagged with dimensional varieties
Spacetime May Have Fractal Properties on a Quantum Scale
(PhysOrg.com) -- Usually, we think of spacetime as being four-dimensional, with three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. However, this Euclidean perspective is just one of many possible multi-dimensional ...
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Country cousins: Climate connections and land urbanization dynamics
(Phys.org) -- What’s in a name? Quite a bit in climate science, where the term teleconnection refers not to digital communications, but rather to a recurring and persistent large-scale pattern of pre ...
May 28, 2012 |
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Researchers demonstrate possible primitive mechanism of chemical info self-replication
(Phys.org) -- When scientists think about the replication of information in chemistry, they usually have in mind something akin to what happens in living organisms when DNA gets copied: a double-stranded molecule ...
May 25, 2012 |
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Origami-inspired design method merges engineering, art
Researchers have shown how to create morphing robotic mechanisms and shape-shifting sculptures from a single sheet of paper in a method reminiscent of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding.
May 21, 2012 |
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Electron hopping in graphene oxide leads to highly sensitive sensing
(Phys.org) -- Graphene has many promising applications on its own, but pairing the two-dimensional material with the semiconductor titanium dioxide (TiO2) extends its capabilities even further. A team of ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 17, 2012 |
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Biologists produce potential malarial vaccine from algae
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in engineering algae to produce potential candidates for a vaccine that would prevent transmission of the parasite that causes malaria, an achievement that ...
May 16, 2012 |
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Researchers unlock mystery of how 'handedness' arises
The overwhelming majority of proteins and other functional molecules in our bodies display a striking molecular characteristic: They can exist in two distinct forms that are mirror images of each other, like ...
May 08, 2012 |
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Graphene-based terahertz devices: The wave of the future
People use electromagnetic energy every day … watching television, listening to the radio, popping corn with a microwave, taking an X-ray or using a cellphone. This energy travels in the form of waves, ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 02, 2012 |
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Researchers create first custom designed protein crystal
Protein design is technique that is increasingly valuable to a variety of fields, from biochemistry to therapeutics to materials engineering. University of Pennsylvania chemists have taken this kind of design ...
Apr 25, 2012 |
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New material shares many of graphene's unusual properties
Graphene, a single-atom-thick layer of carbon, has spawned much research into its unique electronic, optical and mechanical properties. Now, researchers at MIT have found another compound that shares many ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Two-dimensional boron has potential advantages over graphene
(Phys.org) -- When is nothing really something? When it leads to a revelation about boron, an element with worlds of unexplored potential.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 23, 2012 |
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