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Electrons Are Incredibly Close to Being Perfect Spheres
Measuring the Electron Grad student Joe Smallman adjusts the lasers used by researchers at Imperial College London to measure the shape of the electron. Jony Hudson The wee electron has gotten its...
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Largest DNA-Based Computer Ever Built Can Calculate Square Roots
DNA Computing Circuit This wiring diagram specifies a system of 74 DNA molecules that constitute the largest synthetic circuit of its type ever made. The circuit computes the square root of a number...
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Single-Molecule Motor Runs on Electricity, Could Be Used for Single-Cell Surgery
Single-Molecule Motor Sykes Lab, Tufts University We've seen single-molecule "motors" before, but they're pretty primitive, motors only in the most basic sense of the word. But this new one, made of a...
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The Recently Discovered Molecules That Could End Up Affecting Your Memory
The Puzzle of Memory Pixelclash.eu/Shutterstock Our friends at io9 have a great little overview of what we scientific types like to call the Eternal Sunshine Molecules (note: no scientific types call...
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Brilliant 10: The Chemical Mechanic
Tobias Ritter Courtesy Tobias Ritter After 1,200 unsuccessful attempts to do something, most people would call it quits. Not Harvard University chemist Tobias Ritter. Chemistry research is 90 percent...
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Structural Self-Replication Based on DNA Could Create New Materials
Self-Replicating Motif Inspired by DNA replication rules, tile motifs recognize and bind to complementary tiles to form a new, unique sequence. Wang et al./Nature One of the hallmarks of living things...
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10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class
Tetranitratoxycarbon Professor Robert Zoellner holds a model of tetranitratoxycarbon. He has a co-authorship on a paper about the new molecule--along with ten-year-old Clara Lazen. Humboldt State...
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IBM Photographs the Electric Charge in a Single Molecule
Where's the Charge? For the first time, Kelvin probe force microscopy shows how electrical charge is distributed in a single molecule. IBM Research This is a molecule, and the circles represent how...
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Captured: The First-Ever Images of Atoms Moving Inside a Molecule
First-Ever Images of Atoms Moving in a Molecule Image courtesy of Cosmin Blaga, Ohio State University Ohio State University researchers have captured the first-ever images of atoms moving within a...
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The World's Most Sensitive Scale Can Weigh Single Protons
Atom, With Protons Wikimedia Commons A group of scientists at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology have created a new scale (and process for weighing) that increases the accuracy of small-scale,...
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Scientists Create the Smallest Possible Five-Ringed Molecule, Photograph It,...
Olympicene 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. IBM Research–Zurich While most people end up crafting stick figures in boring meetings, Graham Richards of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) was...
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Found in Orbit Around a Young Sunlike Star: Sugar
Space Sugars A team of astronomers has found molecules of glycolaldehyde — a simple form of sugar — in the gas surrounding a young binary star. This image shows the Rho Ophiuchi star-forming region in...
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A Molecule Called Dickkopf-1 Is Your Worst Enemy As You Age
The Elderly Wikimedia Commons Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg have discovered a particular molecule, named Dickkopf-1 or Dkk1, that seems to have a positive effect on...
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First Images Of How A Molecule's Structure Changes In A Reaction
Before and After the Reaction UC Berkeley Researchers have for the first time captured atomic-scale images of molecules before and after a chemical reaction--a breakthrough that will help researchers...
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A Self-Assembling Molecular Train Set
Choo Choo U.S. National System of Public Lands When the tiny bits of stuff inside your body's cells need to get somewhere, they move on tracks, like the cars of a train. Protein, genetic material and...
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Nano-Tweezers Can Move Molecules With Light
Tiny tweezer The nano-tweezer is made by focusing a beam of laser light through a metal-coated optical fiber. Berthelot et al / Nature Nanotechnology Scientists have created the tiniest "tweezers"...
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Clara Lazen is the discoverer of tetranitratoxycarbon, a molecule constructed of, obviously, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon. It's got some interesting possible properties,…
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This is a molecule, and the circles represent how the electrical charge is distributed inside it. It's a glimpse of the forces that bind molecules together, essentially. This…
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Ohio State University researchers have captured the first-ever images of atoms moving within a molecule using a novel technique that turns one of the molecules own electrons…
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A group of scientists at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology have created a new scale (and process for weighing) that increases the accuracy of small-scale, um, scales to…
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