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(Nanowerk Spotlight) Shrink an electrical switch down to the size of a single molecule and the current flowing through it becomes hostage to geometry. At that scale, the signal depends not just on ...

A 150-year-old rule in geometry has been proven wrong. Mathematicians found two different doughnut-shaped surfaces that look ...

On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of ...

A model for the structure of the electron is proposed, in which the electron is composed of electric tripole, i.e., a +1 ...

In his doctoral thesis, Michael Roop develops numerical methods that allow finding physically reliable approximate solutions ...

A simple bundle of staples reveals an unusual physical behavior, one that shifts between rigidity and fluidity depending on ...

We thought it was evolution, but an experiment with pencils shows that tips like teeth and thorns may owe their rounded shape ...