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Nano
knitting mends brains
Scientists have used a nanotechnology-based technique
to repair traumatic brain injuries in hamsters. The brain
injuries blinded the animals; the repair partially restored
the hamsters' vision...
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Mighty
molecular motor
Scientists have made several types of single-molecule
rotary motors. The challenge is getting them to do useful
work...
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Broken
straw illusion
Precision
positioning with DNA
Nano
metronome
Printing
nanocircuits |
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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