A tabletop covered in miniature Lego minifigures. There is a whooshing sound, a pause, and then a single minifigure in the center of the table topples over, leaving the remaining minifigures standing.
General Physics
Dec 2, 2021
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A team of researchers at the National Graphene Institute, have demonstrated that atomic lattices of slightly twisted 2-D transition metal dichalcogenides undergo extensive lattice reconstruction, which can pattern their optoelectronic ...
Nanomaterials
May 28, 2020
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40
Chemical reactions are used to produce all kinds of important molecules such as drugs, agrochemicals and materials.
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 2, 2020
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20
A LEGO brick could survive in the ocean for as many as 1,300 years, according to new research.
Environment
Mar 16, 2020
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Researchers at the University of Manchester have uncovered interesting phenomena when multiple two-dimensional materials are combined into van der Waals heterostructures (layered "sandwiches" of different materials).
Nanomaterials
Dec 23, 2019
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For the first time, LEGO has been cooled to the lowest temperature possible in an experiment which reveals a new use for the popular toy.
General Physics
Dec 23, 2019
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Human tissues experience a variety of mechanical stimuli that can affect their ability to carry out their physiological functions, such as protecting organs from injury. The controlled application of such stimuli to living ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 8, 2019
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57
A crowd of 29 stands still, positioned as lookouts in various directions. A chirp punctuates the silence before being replaced by a distinct buzz. The buzzing grows louder, then abruptly drops back into silence. Twenty-eight ...
General Physics
Apr 5, 2017
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149
Researchers have developed a nanoscale engineering method that transforms tiny particles into "LEGO- like" modular building blocks.
Nanomaterials
Oct 11, 2016
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0
Nature contains a special kind of Lego brick: biological molecules, peptides to be exact, that can be built together to form a wide range of complex structures. Unlike the popular toy bricks, however, the molecular building ...
Biochemistry
Mar 3, 2016
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