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RFID
steps toward ubiquity
Radiofrequency
identification (RFID) chips are increasingly used to track
shipping containers from factory to warehouse to store.
The promise -- and peril -- of RFID chips is to make every
product electronically trackable...
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Sturdy
plastic nanotubes
In recent years, scientists have stretched and
sliced cell-like liposomes to make networks of tiny containers
connected by tiny tubes. To date the structures have been
made of egg-white-like substances that are relatively
fragile...
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Study
Urges Nano Safety Rules
Pressure
brings focus
Freezing
bones
Biosensor
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FEATURES
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View
from the High Ground: Cornell's Jon Kleinberg
Six degrees of separation, buying gasoline
by the molecule, the science of popularity, all just getting
along online, intellectual prosthetics, Big Science, making
up questions, and telling stories.
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How
It Works: Quantum computing: qubits
Photons, electrons and atoms, oh my! These particles are
the raw materials for qubits, the basic building blocks
of quantum computers. |
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