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Flexible warped nanographene developed for bioimaging

A new water-soluble nanocarbon triggers cell death when exposed to light [caption id="attachment_14591" align="alignright" width="408"] Hydrophilic chains on the periphery impart high water solubility. Credit : ITbM, Nagoya University[/caption] An international team of scientists has…

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Saturn’s B ring peaks

[caption id="attachment_14585" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI[/caption] While the Winter Olympics is in full swing in PyeongChang, South Korea, and many winter sport fanatics head to snow-clad mountains to get their thrills on the slopes this…

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MIT launches Task Force on the Work of…

Institute-wide effort will study the evolution of jobs in an age of technological advancement. [caption id="attachment_14582" align="alignnone" width="639"] The task force leadership team consists of (right) David Autor, the Ford Professor of Economics and associate…

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Bering Strait

[caption id="attachment_14578" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017–18), processed by ESA[/caption] The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over the Bering Strait, which connects the Pacific and Arctic Oceans between Russia and the…