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ABRACADABRA: Dark matter might come to light
MIT physicists are proposing a new experiment to detect a dark matter particle called the axion. If successful, the…
Could you swallow your surgeon whole?
The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard…
Manufacturing technique yields particle uniformity
In the latest issue of the journal Lab on a Chip, researchers from MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories…
I want to say just one word to you. Just one word…plastics
If the 1967 film "The Graduate" were remade today, Mr. McGuire's famous advice to young Benjamin Braddock would…
The pressure of light is a “knife in the butter”
Researchers have used the pressure of light—also called optical forces or sometimes "tractor beams"—to create a new…
Nanosensors help understand how tumors will respond to therapies
MIT researchers have designed nanosensors that can profile tumors and may yield insight into how they will respond…
Artificial Muscles: Scientists Spin A Yarn…
In recent years, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and colleagues at the University of Wollongong in…
Not just another cat meme: ‘Schroedinger’s Cat’ revelation
One of the most famous mind-twisters of the quantum world is the thought experiment known as 'Schroedinger’s Cat',…
Video gamers are better than scientists at identifying proteins
While it's been said that video games and too much screen time can rot the brain, a group of gamers was actually…
Using fish scales to create self-powered electronics
Fish is one of the oldest delicacies in the world and in India especially, large quantities of fish are consumed on…