This Artist "Paints" With Nanoparticles Inspired by Butterfly Wings
She makes them herself, as artist-in resident in the University of California, Berkeley’s nanotechnology research group.
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She makes them herself, as artist-in resident in the University of California, Berkeley’s nanotechnology research group.
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She succeeds outgoing director-general Rolf Heuer, who oversaw the laboratory’s operations for the last seven years.
Thus far it has only been tested in rats, but it could lead to a potential revolution in human dental care.
It’s designed to show how passive elastic swimming can mimic, fairly well, the motions that allow sperm (or fish) to swim.
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A new printing method lets us make images smaller than we’ve ever managed before. Images that are not only a few millionths of an inch wide, they're also in colour. Read More >>
Put down the champagne bottles people, people, there's more to it than the headline writers would have you think.
The fate of the cleaners that knocked off the mask's beard is unclear (if it was them at all).
The impressive new power source could be ready for market by 2020.
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We’re basically seeing an instant replay of an event that originally happened 10 billion years ago.
It will mimic a 500-pixel field-of-vision—far more crude than healthy human sight, but impressive if it works.
A new study shows that the fear experienced when watching scary movies is in fact associated with an increase in clotting agents in the blood.
Backyard Scientist filled a tank to the brim with water balls, which are little polymer beads that expand to slimy squishy balls when soaked in water, and then poured in molten aluminium to create some wild designs. See more >>
First it's all about getting the bad bacteria out of water.
