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Nanoparticles sink or swim in sewage

Neutron scattering could help make wastewater nanoparticle free

Binary systems share stardust

Rare glimpse of planet formation in binary star system

UK to pull out of Gemini Observatory

Funding is 'almost certain' to stop after 2012

Photo finish in race for strontium condensate

Isotope’s scattering length is ‘just right’

Holes block light in very thin films

Another strange twist found in the physics of holey materials

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The biomedical attraction of magnetic nanoparticles

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Recipes for planet formation

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Human spaceflight: science or spectacle?

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A very good Englishman

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