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Japan used seawater to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after the tsunami in March 2011 -- and that was probably the best action to take at the time, says Professor Alexandra Navrotsky of the University of California, Davis.

Graphene is one of the wonders of the science world, with the potential to create foldaway mobile phones, wallpaper-thin lighting panels and the next generation of aircraft. The new finding at the University of Manchester gives graphene's potential a most surprising dimension – graphene can also be used for distilling alcohol.

Does antimatter behave differently in gravity than matter? Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have set out to determine the answer. Should they find it, it could explain why the universe seems to have no antimatter and why it is expanding at an ever increasing rate.

Scientists have found that micron-size particles which are trapped at fluid interfaces exhibit a collective dynamic that is subject to seemingly unrelated governing laws. These laws show a smooth transitioning from long-ranged cosmological-style gravitational attraction down to short-range attractive and repulsive forces. The study by Johannes Bleibel from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent

Researchers in the US have, for the first time, cloaked a three-dimensional object standing in free space, bringing the much-talked-about invisibility cloak one step closer to reality.

NBA players may be too conservative with their shots, according to a comparison with a theoretical model describing shot selection reported Jan. 25 in the online journal PLoS ONE.

Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and opening the door to a new range of scientific discovery.

Chemists have taken an important step in making artificial life forms from scratch. Using a novel chemical reaction, they have created self-assembling cell membranes, the structural envelopes that contain and support the reactions required for life.

When Gang Ren whirls the controls of his cryo-electron microscope, he compares it to fine-tuning the gearshift and brakes of a racing bicycle. But this machine at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is a bit more complex. It costs nearly $1.5 million, operates at the frigid temperature of liquid nitrogen, and it is allowing scientists to see w

Rice University physicists have gone to extremes to prove that Isaac Newton's classical laws of motion can apply in the atomic world: They've built an accurate model of part of the solar system inside a single atom of potassium.

A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside has identified a property of "bilayer graphene" (BLG) that the researchers say is analogous to finding the Higgs boson in particle physics.
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Scientists measure the way the water in Loch Ness rolls back and forth as the whole of Scotland tilts up and down with the passing of the tides.
The scientist is known as much for his contributions to theoretical cosmology and quantum gravity as for his willingness to make science accessible for the general public. His work is the topic of a new biography by science writer Kitty Ferguson.
Tranquillityite shows up in Australian rocks
Specks of dust are as unique as snowflakes – but no one had ever paid much attention to what individual particles are made of. Until now. Kate Douglas reports
Injection well for wastewater from fracking, oil and gas drilling to blame for series of temblors, says seismologist
A global cataclysm 250 million years ago wiped away the majority of the Earth's living creatures
Scientists have studied the diamond weevil's iridescent wings since the 19th century, but nobody knew how the scales reflected so much light -- until now. Hint: They really are diamonds.
Researchers develop a method that could lead to the lowest temperatures ever achieved on Earth - and may help in future quantum computers.
The first clear evidence for a new particle at the Large Hadron Collider emerges, which may make finding particles such as the Higgs boson easier.
Recent hints of a featherweight Higgs boson affect a possible link between the Higgs and dark matter
A team of geologists from Britain have pinpointed the exact quarry that Stonehenge's innermost circle of rocks came from. It's the first time that a precise source has been found for any of the stones at the prehistoric monument.
When you think of a bubble, you think of a perfectly round, spherical shape, right? But what happens when you squish bubbles together?
More than 4,000 pages of the pioneering scientist and are mathematician can now be seen online.
Imagine a bill covered with microscopic holes that make it glow slightly in the light. It's tech borrowed from a butterfly, and it may soon be foiling counterfeiters around the world.If all goes as planned, the world's supply of cash will soon be secured with a nano-scale optical defense that is as secure as it is visually impressive.
Scientists predicted this weekend that sighting of the first strong signs of a particle vital to support Einstein's ideas on the working of the universe will be reported Tuesday by the CERN physics research center.
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