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Nobel Prize Winner
(October 7, 2008)
Picture of Yoichiro Nambu, one of the three 2008 physics Nobel Prize winners. |
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Strongest Material
(July 28, 2008)
A new experiment is the first to directly measure the strength of graphene, and it is now considered the world?s strongest material. |
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On Very Thing Ice
(June 4, 2008)
Ice only a few nm thick has for the first time been imaged in the act of forming into a sheet |
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New Form of Helium
(May 28, 2008)
An experiment in Italy has for the first time observed directly nuclear-fragments consisting of two protons. |
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Xenon Ketchup
(May 15, 2008)
Data recovered from the wreck of the Space Shuttle Columbia helps scientists understand how the viscosity of fluids can change dramatically |
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Carbon Dioxide in Collision
(April 23, 2008)
A new study provides the best understanding yet of how carbon dioxide molecules absorb infrared radiation even in the act of colliding other molecules |
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World's Smallest Diamond Ring
(March 14, 2008)
Australian scientists have made a diamond ring only 5 microns across. |
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Atom Wave Cloaking
(March 17, 2008)
A new scheme would make a region of space invisible to atom waves |
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Fractal Plant Tumor
(February 28, 2008)
A new study looks at fractals in time and space |
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Darkest Object
(February 5, 2008)
A nanotube array is the darkest object ever made in the lab |
