Nanowires are guided around chips
DNA coating offers a route to self-assembled circuits
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Reasons to be cheerful
The economy may be in a nosedive but there is plenty to look forward to in science this year
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Random motion of bacteria could drive micromotors
Tiny organisms could spin a rotor, say physicists
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Shifty constants
Do some constants need fixing? Robert P Crease relays your suggestions, though he finds that concerns over SI units arouse still more passion
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European synchrotron secures €177m upgrade
New beamlines will allow nanometre-scale experiments at Grenoble lab
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Optical tweezers: where physics meets biology
Joost van Mameren explains how quantitative force measurements by optical tweezers can unravel the mechanical properties of biological molecules
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Tunnelling electrons could drive nanomotors
Tiny rotors are inspired by biological motors
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Electrons put a new spin on chirality
Could radiation striking magnetic materials be responsible for the 'handedness' of biological molecules?
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Condensed-matter physicist to head DESY
Accelerator lab chooses nanostructure expert as new director
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Memristors model primitive learning
An amoeba’s ability to learn can be simulated using an electronic circuit
