Spider webs strengthened by local sacrifices
Arachnid silks could inspire improved building designs
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Magnetic fields put the brakes on millisecond pulsars
Research could also help better determine pulsar age
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Getting to the froth of the matter
Physicists create the "ideal foam" in the lab for the first time
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Frequency comb reaches extreme ultraviolet
Device could boost study of fundamental constants
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Heating cools a semiconductor
Laser technique used on solid for first time
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Ancient Islamic architects created perfect quasicrystals
Patterns made with nothing more than a compass and a straight edge
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Rydberg atom simulates Trojan asteroids
Jupiter's companions recreated on an atomic scale
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Carbon membranes excel at separating liquids
Ultrathin films have highly selective permeability
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Graphene could be a perfect absorber of light
Periodic patterning confines light, claim physicists
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Plasmonic metamaterials could make ‘gecko toes’
Simulation reveals surprising attraction
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