Glass arrested on the road to crystallization
Experiments on colloidal gels shed light on how glass is formed
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Read article: Glass arrested on the road to crystallization
Viruses get X-rayed
New technique generates X-ray diffraction images of single viruses
Rising cost of oil ‘due to speculation’
Statistical physics-based study implies growing demand cannot account entirely for trend
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Table-top experiment could explain why continents drift
Interactions between convection cells and solid objects provide insight into how 'supercontinents' form and then break apart
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CERN hopes LHC report will dispel doomsday fears
New report reinforces earlier conclusion that there is no cause for concern from strangelets or black holes
‘Excitonic integrated circuit’ is a first
Device used excitons to switch beams of light
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Combination technique shows the strain
Moiré technique and electron holography combined to give 2D strain map
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NMR sheds new light on protein interactions
Free proteins change shape prior to binding, say biophysicists
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Disorder puts the brakes on matter waves
Independent groups see 'Anderson localization' in ultracold gases
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‘Plutoids’: the new name for Pluto-like dwarf planets
IAU decides on sub-classification that will include larger sibling Eris
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