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Graphene – Cancer cure, cavity treatment, battery life prolonger

Graphene, the carbon-based nanomaterial that seems to be on everybody’s lips these days has a lot more potential uses than initially suspected. Not a week goes by that we don’t hear something about new...

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Photosynthesis no longer limited to plants thanks to new advances in...

Photosynthesis is a very important natural process that allows plants and bacteria to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen with the help of sun light and water. Without this process, humans and other...

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Graphene allows spiders to spin webs of unprecedented strength

A while back we talked about a few of graphene’s many uses such as curing cancer, treating cavities, and prolonging battery life. The wonder nanomaterial already sounds pretty incredible, but it now...

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Micron-Scale Beamsplitter Brings Engineers Closer to Light-Speed Computing

Researchers at the University of Utah have developed an incredibly tiny beamsplitter which divides light into two separate channels of information, an accomplishment which could be instrumental in the...

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The invisibility cloak is becoming a reality

Invisibility is one of the marvels humans always wanted to achieve. It has been reflected in books, movies like The Invisible Man or Predator, but now scientists are getting closer and closer in...

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