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Computer rendering of E. coli bacteria. A newly developed E. coli strain is capable of efficiently producing unnatural polymers, through a o...

Impact Study The slug and gunpowder have been removed from the cartridge, so it’s only the primer that’s going off when it’s hit from below ...

Members of the group that confirmed the production of element 114 in front of the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator at the 88-Inch Cyclotron, fr...

Pentacene, Up Close: IBM Research - Zurich From Popular Science: As part of a greater effort to someday build computing elements at an atom...

3-D rendering of H2O molecules. (Credit: iStockphoto) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Apr. 8, 2009) — The design of efficient systems for ...

A piece of steel (left) coated with a thin layer of the super-slippery material just 2 to 3 micrometers thick - such coatings provide a kind...

Image from The Tequila-Man From Foreign Policy Blog: Tequila doesn't just produce hangovers any more. Under the right conditions, the al...

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A high-energy-density nitrate ester (1) with unique properties was synthesized in good yield in a three-step process. Destructive stimuli st...

Martin Chalfie of Columbia University, Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and Roger Y. Tsien of UC Sa...

From Live Science: Determining whether or not hot water can freeze faster than cold water may seem like a no-brainer. After all, water freez...

This superatom of aluminum and hydrogen is surprisingly stable. Small, But Super -- Science News These 'atoms' can't leap tall b...

From Technology Review: Graphene, praised for its electrical properties, has been proven the strongest known material. Materials scientists ...

Massively parallel holography at high resolutions. (a) A lithographic test sample imaged by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) next to a 30-...