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Read MoreThese scotch whisky packages look genuine, but are the bottle’s contents authentic? A new Raman spectroscopy method can identify fakes quickly and accurately. Credit: Wikepedia; Creative Commons license. Product counterfeiting…
Read MoreScanning electron microscope image of cell growth on gallium nitride that has been coated with peptides. Credit: Albena Ivanisevic, North Carolina State University. We live in good times, medically speaking.…
Read MoreThe GameCase Western Reserve University at Carnegie Mellon UniversityNov. 12, 2:000 p.m., ET These two look-alike schools will meet for the 41st time on Saturday. Since 1986, this game has…
Read MoreNew glass sheathing for 1 WTC ‘pedestal” will go below the glass portions that can be seen in the construction picture above taken Oct. 25, 2011. Credit: edrost88. Back in…
Read MoreHere’s what we are hearing (some information from news releases): L&L Kiln introduces the Corona kiln This fiber-lined kiln reaches 2012°F. Heat up time is quick: 15 minutes to 1600°F;…
Read MoreBeing neither a physicist nor a mathematician, Shakespeare probably knew very little about nothing. This painting of the Bard is hanging in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Credit: Wikipedia Try…
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Metal powder, and resulting metal parts made from a metal additive manufacturing process developed by the Materials Standards for Additive Manufacturing project at NIST. Credit: NIST Engineering Laboratory NIST’s Engineering…
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[Image above] Ainissa Ramirez, associate professor at Yale and science popularizer, uses bathroom tiles to explain symmetry and five-fold quasicrystal symmetry. Credit: YaleUniversity, YouTube Yale associate professor Ainissa Ramirez is…
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