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High-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) is the only experimental technique to directly watch proteins in dynamic action.

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New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.

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We usually think of ice as just frozen water. It is simple, solid, and cold. But water is a master of disguise. With just two ...

Just published in Nature, the Google team’s findings demonstrate what it says is the first-ever verifiable capability by a ...