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Online tools are 'distraction' for science

Report says journals remain "the gold standard" for disseminating results

Plasmonic metamaterials could make 'gecko toes'

Simulation reveals surprising attraction

Isotopic purity boosts graphene's heat conduction

Pure carbon-12 is a better conductor

Neutrons revive Heisenberg's first take on uncertainty

Experiment quantifies error and disturbance

Early supermassive black holes could grow it alone

Simulation shows cold gas boosts growth

Cell softening could promote tumour growth

Simulations show how mechanical change promotes cell division

Nanotube bundles could boost solar cells

Material performs the two important steps for generating current

Kepler space telescope could find exomoons

Distant satellites could point to extraterrestrial life

Copper collisions create much strangeness

Discovery backs quark–gluon-plasma interpretation

Mystery surrounds death of Oxford astrophysicist

Police arrest 49-year-old man in connection with incident

Invisibility cloak gives sound performance

Acoustic device provides best cloaking yet

White dwarfs eaten in supernova flare-up

Type 1a supernova left no survivors

Three new maps shine light on dark matter

Maps created by studying the gravitational distortion of light from distant galaxies

Introducing the 'nano-ear'

Trapped nanoparticle could listen to micro-organisms

Rolling microcapsules repair damaged surfaces

Nanoparticles delivered to cracks and defects