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High-tech
virus films
Nature is proving to be a particularly versatile
resource for finding simple, inexpensive ways of building
high-tech materials and devices.
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
have advanced their technique of using viruses...
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Rubber
crystal has light touch
Photonic crystal -- material with tiny regularly
spaced holes -- precisely controls lightwaves, opening
the way for lightning fast computer chips that use light
rather than electrical signals and tiny communications
devices...
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Enzymes
compute
Quantum
crypto advances demoed
Swollen
lenses make biosensor
Nanofluidics
tune light chips |
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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