Tech: Realization of high-performance magnetic sensors due to magnetic vortex structures — (Report)
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Tech: Novel method for investigating pore geometry in rocks — (Report)
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Researchers have made a new hybrid conductive material -- part elastic polymer, part liquid metal -- that can be bent and stretched at...
Tech: Long suspected theory about the moon holds water — (Report)
A team of Japanese scientists led by Masahiro Kayama of Tohoku University's Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, has discovered a mineral known...
New printing technique could be used to develop remotely controlled biomedical devices — ...
MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with a wave of a magnet, much like marionettes without the...
Organics on Ceres may be more abundant than originally thought — (Report)
Last year, scientists with NASA's Dawn mission announced the detection of organic material -- carbon-based compounds that are necessary components for life --...
New technique could find some of the youngest planets in our galaxy — ...
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Lignin, a pulp industry by-product, could replace fossil materials — (Report)
Researchers at Aalto University and York University have succeeded in creating a water-repellent composite structure out of lignin particles, in which the enzymes...
Previously nodeless core electrons form nodes in unsaturated organic compounds — (Report)
YNU researchers resolve the age-old mystery of why silicon cannot replace carbon in organic compounds. A new benchmark quantum chemical calculation of C2,...
The true power of the solar wind — (Report)
The planets and moons of our solar system are continuously being bombarded by particles hurled away from the sun. On Earth this has...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...