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When physicists at the ARC Centre for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) needed a key component for their terahertz experiments, they ran into a frustrating problem—they needed tiny optical devices, known as wire-grid polarizers, but these cost thousands of dollars each.
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Marmot researchers in Gothic, Colorado, affectionately call themselves “marmoteers.” Funding cuts have already wiped out a third of the grad students.
Thunderstorms make seismic waves that can be used to find sub-surface features.
Thunderstorms make seismic waves that can be used to find sub-surface features.
Cancer drugs are often designed to block specific molecular targets, but what happens after they enter a cell is not always well understood.
Astronomers have discovered a hitherto unseen population of galaxies with fading radio lobes, revealing what happens to these vast outflows when their black hole engines stall.
If you want to describe a particular color, you could look to the Pantone color wheel to find its exact hue, saturation and brightness, and how it compares with other colors. But nothing like that has existed for complex odors.
