Imaging the polarity of individual chemical bonds
New variation of atomic force microscopy can observe subtle charge imbalances
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Physicists get a surprise when watching quasicrystals grow
Error-correction process maintains complicated structure
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Buckyballs give copper a magnetic attraction
Non-magnetic metals become ferromagnetic when in contact with carbon molecules
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Web life: Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics
The venerable 'journal club' concept is thriving in the online environment
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Stretchable graphene transistors inspired by kirigami
Japanese art of paper cutting used to make micron-sized electronic and mechanical devices
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Metal foams could make promising radiation shields
Environmentally friendly foams could be used in everything from space travel to nuclear reactors
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Room at the bottom
A biography of Silicon Valley's "quiet revolutionary", Gordon Moore, gets Paul Michael Grant thinking about the future of Moore's eponymous law
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Bountiful buckyballs resolve interstellar mystery
C60 molecules might abound in the universe
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Computer-chip features shrink to 7 nm
Silicon-germanium and extreme ultraviolet lithography keep Moore's law on track
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Crystal phase-transitions keep babies in third-world countries warm
Researchers develop non-electric incubating blankets for use in villages
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