NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took this stunning image of Pluto only a few minutes after closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image was obtained at a high phase angle –that is, with the sun on the other side of Pluto, ...
Space Exploration
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Will a reaction that quickly releases carbon in a test tube work at the same rate over acres of farmland? The answer depends on the scaling factor, a number that is used to increase or decrease the reaction's rate depending ...
Materials Science
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Plants use many strategies to disperse their seeds, but among the most fascinating are exploding seed pods. Scientists had assumed that the energy to power these explosions was generated through the seed pods deforming as ...
Plants & Animals
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Before humans could take their first steps on the moon, that mysterious and forbidding surface had to be reconnoitered by robots. When President John Kennedy set a goal of landing astronauts on the lunar surface in 1961, ...
Space Exploration
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New University of Arkansas theoretical physics research shows that topological defects can explain unusual features of some ferroelectric materials.
Condensed Matter
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Researchers from the Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies (ISTM-CNR, Italy), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), and the University of Milan have experimentally confirmed a model to detect electron ...
General Physics
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Marianna Kharlamova of the Lomonosov Moscow State University Department of Materials Science examined different types of carbon nanotube "stuffing" and classified them according to the influence on the properties of the nanotubes. ...
Nanomaterials
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Leiden physicists describe a new method to measure so-called surface plasmons, which could lead to new light-based technologies, including faster internet.
Optics & Photonics
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A group of scientists from Russia, the U.S., Canada and Germany has developed a simple and effective web service called Genes And Metabolites (GAM) to help researchers study complex biological processes in cells. The program ...
Cell & Microbiology
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The most intense source of gamma radiation constructed to date will soon become operational at the ELI Nuclear Physics research facility. It will enable the study of reactions that reveal the details of many processes occurring ...
Astronomy
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