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- A rock is a clock: Physicist uses matter to tell time
- New material harvests energy from water vapor
- Molecular machine could hold key to more efficient manufacturing
- Giant tobacco plants that stay young forever
- Banded mongooses structure monosyllabic sounds in a similar way to humans
| A rock is a clock: Physicist uses matter to tell time Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:21 AM PST What is the simplest, most fundamental clock? Physicists have shown that a single atom is sufficient to measure time using its high-frequency matter wave. Conversely, the frequency of matter can be used to define its mass. The feat is a fundamental demonstration of wave-particle duality central to quantum mechanics. |
| New material harvests energy from water vapor Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:21 AM PST Engineers have created a new polymer film that can generate electricity by drawing on a ubiquitous source: water vapor. |
| Molecular machine could hold key to more efficient manufacturing Posted: 10 Jan 2013 11:21 AM PST An industrial revolution on a minute scale is taking place in the laboratory with the development of a highly complex machine that mimics how molecules are made in nature. |
| Giant tobacco plants that stay young forever Posted: 10 Jan 2013 08:17 AM PST Tobacco plants bloom when they are just a few months old -- and then they die. Now, researchers have located a genetic switch which can keep the plants young for years and which permits unbounded growth. In short, an ideal source of biomass. |
| Banded mongooses structure monosyllabic sounds in a similar way to humans Posted: 10 Jan 2013 04:53 AM PST Animals are more eloquent than previously assumed. Even the monosyllabic call of the banded mongoose is structured and thus comparable with the vowel and consonant system of human speech. Behavioral biologists have thus become the first to demonstrate that animals communicate with even smaller sound units than syllables. |
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