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• Sense of touch reproduced through prosthetic hand
• New technique to improve quality control of lithium-ion batteries
• Heady mathematics: Describing popping bubbles in a foam
• Moon and Earth have common water source
• Dead stars 'polluted' with planetary debris: Signs of Earth-like planets found
• 'Power plants': How to harvest electricity directly from plants
• Device for portable, ultra-precise clocks and quantum sensors developed

Sense of touch reproduced through prosthetic hand Posted: 09 May 2013 01:38 PM PDT Neurobiologists have shown how an organism can sense a tactile stimulus, in real time, through an artificial sensor for the first time.

New technique to improve quality control of lithium-ion batteries Posted: 09 May 2013 12:45 PM PDT Researchers have created a new tool to detect flaws in lithium-ion batteries as they are being manufactured, a step toward reducing defects and inconsistencies in the thickness of electrodes that affect battery life and reliability.

Heady mathematics: Describing popping bubbles in a foam Posted: 09 May 2013 11:21 AM PDT Two applied mathematicians have found a way to mathematically describe the evolution and disappearance of a foam. Using these equations, they were able to generate a movie that shows the complex draining, popping and rearrangement of these bubbles as the foam vanishes.

Moon and Earth have common water source Posted: 09 May 2013 11:20 AM PDT New research finds that water inside the moon's mantle comes from the same source as water on Earth. The Moon is thought to have formed after a giant impact to a still-forming Earth 4.5 million years ago. These new findings suggest that Earth may have had water at the time of that impact, and some of that water may have been transferred to the moon.

Dead stars 'polluted' with planetary debris: Signs of Earth-like planets found Posted: 09 May 2013 09:36 AM PDT Astronomers have found signs of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby star cluster. The white dwarf stars are being polluted by debris from asteroid-like objects falling onto them. This discovery suggests that rocky planet assembly is common in clusters, say researchers.

'Power plants': How to harvest electricity directly from plants Posted: 09 May 2013 07:43 AM PDT The sun provides the most abundant source of energy on the planet. However, only a tiny fraction of the solar radiation on Earth is converted into useful energy.

Device for portable, ultra-precise clocks and quantum sensors developed Posted: 09 May 2013 06:08 AM PDT Researchers have developed a portable way to produce ultracold atoms for quantum technology and quantum information processing.

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