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Small collisions make big impact on Mercury's thin atmosphere
Mercury, our smallest planetary neighbor, has very little to call an atmosphere, but it does have a strange weather pattern: morning micro-meteor showers.
Space Exploration
Sep 29, 2017
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Using an atomic clock to help find evidence of dark matter
A combined team of physicists from the University of Sussex and the National Physical Laboratory, both in the U.K., has been designing experiments to identify ultra-light dark matter particles. In their paper published in ...
Creating nanostructures from the bottom up
Microscopic particles are being coaxed by Duke University engineers to assemble themselves into larger crystalline structures by the use of varying concentrations of microscopic particles and magnetic fields.
Nanophysics
Apr 24, 2012
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NMR used to determine whether gold nanoparticles exhibit 'handedness'
Carnegie Mellon University's Roberto R. Gil and Rongchao Jin have successfully used NMR to analyze the structure of infinitesimal gold nanoparticles, which could advance the development and use of the tiny particles in drug ...
Bio & Medicine
Dec 8, 2011
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New, old science combine to make faster medical test
A UCF researcher has combined cutting-edge nanoscience with a magnetic phenomenon discovered more than 170 years ago to create a method for speedy medical tests.
Bio & Medicine
Jan 19, 2017
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Global pollution estimates reveal surprises, opportunity
It is not unusual to come across headlines about pollution or global warming and find that they reach different conclusions depending upon the data source.
Environment
Jun 25, 2020
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Nanoworld 'snow blowers' carve straight channels in semiconductor surfaces
In the nanoworld, tiny particles of gold can operate like snow blowers, churning through surface layers of an important class of semiconductors to dig unerringly straight paths. The surprising trenching capability, reported ...
Nanophysics
Dec 28, 2015
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Mini disks for data storage: Slanted edges favor tiny magnetic vortices
Slanted exterior edges on tiny magnetic disks could lead to a breakthrough in data processing. Materials researchers of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany, were able to create magnetic vortices with a diameter ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 14, 2011
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As electronics shrink to nanoscale, will they still be good as gold?
Deep inside computer chips, tiny wires made of gold and other conductive metals carry the electricity used to process data.
Nanophysics
Mar 26, 2020
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