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Political humorist Mark Russel once joked, "The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost...
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Beneath many cities are complex networks of optical fibres that carry data, encoded in pulses of light, to offices and homes. Researchers from...
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Quantum jumps are usually regarded to be instantaneous. However, new measurement methods are so precise that it has now become possible to observe...
Tech: Einstein-de Haas effect has a central role in ultrafast demagnetization processes — ...
The Einstein-de Haas effect, first demonstrated more than a century ago, provides an intriguing link between magnetism and rotation in ferromagnetic materials. An...
Tech: Imaging accumulated charges at solid-electrolyte interfaces — (Report)
Charges and their transport are integral to the function of electronic devices, batteries, and biological systems. The charges that accumulate at the interface...
Tech: The single-layer surface of nanostructures can be incorporated into commercial optical systems, from...
Today's optical systems -- from smartphone cameras to cutting-edge microscopes -- use technology that hasn't changed much since the mid-1700s. Compound lenses, invented...
Tech: Device could provide refrigeration for off-grid locations — (Report)
MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive materials and requiring no fossil fuel-generated...
Tech: Highly efficient wet-processed solar cells with molecules in the same orientation — ...
Solar cells are a cost-effective, alternate source of energy. A subtype of these, organic solar cells make use of organic polymers inside the...
Tech: Looking at molecules from two sides with table-top femtosecond soft-X-rays — (Report)
X-ray spectroscopy provides direct access into the nature of chemical bonds, from which the outcome of chemical reactions can be understood. For this,...
Tech: Technique allowed continuous study of cobalt nanoparticles as they grew — (Report)
High-energy X-ray beams and a clever experimental setup allowed researchers to watch a high-pressure, high-temperature chemical reaction to determine for the first time...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
