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• Magnetic 'force field' shields giant gas cloud during collision with Milky Way
• Former missile-tracking telescope helps reveal fate of baby pulsar
• New techniques produce cleanest graphene yet
• Houston we have a problem: Microgravity accelerates biological aging
• Underwater robots influence complex swimming behaviors of schooling fish
• Gaming technology unravels one of the most complex entities in nature: Computational research unveils secrets in the human carbohydrate bar-code
• Physicists take an atomic-level peek at unexpected behavior in multilayered structures
• Real-time, 3-D teleconferencing technology developed
• Could a Milky Way supernova be visible from Earth in next 50 years?
• New recyclable building material, made partially from potatoes, could help solve waste problem
• Defective nanotubes turned into light emitters
• Breakthrough research produces brighter, more efficiently produced lighting
• Giant atom eats quantum gas

Magnetic 'force field' shields giant gas cloud during collision with Milky Way Posted: 31 Oct 2013 12:34 PM PDT Doom may be averted for the Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas that is on a collision course with the Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers have discovered a magnetic field deep in the cloud's interior, which may protect it during its meteoric plunge into the disk of our Galaxy.

Former missile-tracking telescope helps reveal fate of baby pulsar Posted: 31 Oct 2013 11:29 AM PDT A radio telescope once used to track ballistic missiles has helped astronomers determine how the magnetic field structure and rotation of the young and rapidly rotating Crab pulsar evolves with time.

New techniques produce cleanest graphene yet Posted: 31 Oct 2013 11:27 AM PDT Researchers demonstrate for the first time that it's possible to electrically contact an atomically thin 2D material only along its 1D edge. With this new contact architecture, they've developed a new assembly technique for layered materials that prevents contamination at the interfaces, and, using graphene as the model 2D material, show that these two methods in combination result in the cleanest graphene yet realized.

Houston we have a problem: Microgravity accelerates biological aging Posted: 31 Oct 2013 09:53 AM PDT As nations strive to put humans farther into space for longer periods of time, the real loser in this new space race could be the astronauts themselves. That's because experiments conducted on the International Space Station show that microgravity accelerates cardiovascular disease and the biological aging of these cells.

Underwater robots influence complex swimming behaviors of schooling fish Posted: 31 Oct 2013 09:52 AM PDT Scientists have demonstrated how underwater robots can be used to understand and influence the complex swimming behaviors of schooling fish. Robotic fish have an impact on collective animal behavior.

Gaming technology unravels one of the most complex entities in nature: Computational research unveils secrets in the human carbohydrate bar-code Posted: 31 Oct 2013 09:52 AM PDT Scientists have used the power of off-the-shelf computer gaming technology to capture previously unobservable atomic movements. The research is helping to chart one of nature's most complex entities known as "glycomes" -- the entire complement of carbohydrates within a cell.

Physicists take an atomic-level peek at unexpected behavior in multilayered structures Posted: 31 Oct 2013 09:47 AM PDT A new class of materials may influence the next generation of nano-devices, in which integrated circuits are composed of many layers of dissimilar materials.

Real-time, 3-D teleconferencing technology developed Posted: 31 Oct 2013 09:47 AM PDT Engineers have developed 3-D teleconferencing technology that's live, real-time and streaming at 30 frames per second. They say the technology could be ready for smart phones in a few years.

Could a Milky Way supernova be visible from Earth in next 50 years? Posted: 31 Oct 2013 09:46 AM PDT Astronomers have calculated the odds that, sometime during the next 50 years, a supernova occurring in our home galaxy will be visible from Earth. The good news: they've calculated the odds to be nearly 100 percent that such a supernova would be visible to telescopes in the form of infrared radiation. The bad news: the odds are much lower -- dipping to 20 percent or less -- that the shining stellar spectacle would be visible to the naked eye in the nighttime sky.

New recyclable building material, made partially from potatoes, could help solve waste problem Posted: 31 Oct 2013 08:05 AM PDT A new biodegradable and recyclable form of medium density fibreboard (MDF) has been created that could dramatically reduce the problem of future waste.

Defective nanotubes turned into light emitters Posted: 31 Oct 2013 08:05 AM PDT Researchers have developed and patented a new source of light emitter based on boron nitride nanotubes and suitable for developing high-efficiency optoelectronic devices.

Breakthrough research produces brighter, more efficiently produced lighting Posted: 31 Oct 2013 06:04 AM PDT By determining simple guidelines, researchers have made it possible to optimize phosphors -- a key component in white LED lighting -- allowing for brighter, more efficient lights.

Giant atom eats quantum gas Posted: 31 Oct 2013 06:03 AM PDT A team of experimental and theoretical physicists has studied a single micrometer-sized atom. This atom contains tens of thousands of normal atoms in its electron orbital.

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