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World's Smallest Superconductor Developed: Sheet of Four Pairs of Molecules Less Than One Nanometer Wide
30/03/2010
ScienceDaily
Scientists have discovered the world's smallest superconductor, a sheet of four pairs of molecules less than one nanometer wide. The Ohio University-led study, published March 29 as an advance online publication in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, provides the first evidence that nanoscale molecular superconducting wires can be fabricated, which could be used for nanoscale electronic devices and energy applications.
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For One Tiny Instant, Physicists May Have Broken a Law of Nature
30/03/2010
ScienceDaily
For a brief instant, it appears, scientists at BrookÂhaven National Laboratory on Long Island recently discovered a law of nature had been broken.
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Large Hadron Collider Smashes Protons, Sets Record
30/03/2010
National Geographic News
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reached a much-anticipated milestone today when it began smashing subatomic particles together at half its maximum power.
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Individual Light Atoms, Such as Carbon and Oxygen, Identified With New Microscope
28/03/2010
ScienceDaily
Using the latest in aberration-corrected electron microscopy, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their colleagues have obtained the first images that distinguish individual light atoms
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Mother Birds Know Best -- Even Before Birth
27/03/2010
ScienceDaily
Mother birds communicate with their developing chicks before they even hatch by leaving them messages in the egg, new research by a team from the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, has found
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