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IBM Takes First 3D Image of Atomic Bonds
4:14AM Jack Loftus | From what I remember of chemistry, molecules were presented on computer screens, or at the very least with dowels and balls. Thanks to this incredible discovery, however, I’m jealous of how tomorrow’s engineers will view—and control—nature’s building blocks. More »
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Major Milestone Reached in the Quest For Star Trek Style Teleportation
7:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | I don’t understand quantum mechanics. Physicists don’t even really understand it. But somehow, information was successfully teleported over a full meter, which means we’re that much closer to making Star Trek a dorktastic reality. More »
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Light Balls Stack, Recharge in Compromising Positions
1:00PM Gizmodo US Edition | Maarten DeCeulaer’s Nomad Light Molecules lighting project consists of individual light “atoms” that can stand alone, but are recharged by plugging back into a “molecule.” More »
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LHC’s $US21 Million Single Joint Failure is the Most Expensive Soldering Error in Soldering History
4:20AM John Mahoney | The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most complicated machine that was felled by a single faulty solder joint last month, won’t be back until summer 2009 now, at the earliest–a few months later than CERN last speculated. And at what cost? $US21 million in repairs. A drop in the bucket when the full $US10 billion budget is considered, yes, but let’s hope some of this dough is spent on a bit more magnet-meltdown-preventing solder redundancy. [AP] More »
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Atomic Pen Writes World’s Smallest Possible Letters
3:15AM Jesus Diaz | Researches at Osaka University have been doing some really tiny writing lately, using their newly-invented atomic pen, which can draw atom by atom. The resulting letters, the words “Si” for silicon or “Yes” in Spanish, measure only 2 x 2 nanometers, roughly 40,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. According to Masayuki Abe, one of the project scientists, they have reached a limit impossible to surpass: More »
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