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![Optical micrograph showing the small and large pores (black) within the Ni-Mn-Ga alloy (white).](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20091025031722im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/memory_film1_l.jpg) |
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Metallic Shape-Memory Foam Shows Giant Response to Magnetic Fields "Smart" alloy stretches, contracts by almost 10 percent Released
October 16, 2009
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High School Student Develops Chemical-detecting Robot California senior describes how she developed a mobile, autonomous robot, spending time in the lab of an NSF-supported researcher, and she shares what it was like to win at the state science fair competition Released
October 6, 2009
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![Composite of two Hubble Space Telescope images of a global dust storm on Mars.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20091025031722im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/extra_weather1_l.jpg) |
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Monitoring and Predicting Extraterrestrial Weather Scientists adapt a weather research and forecasting tool to model global weather on the Earth, Mars and beyond Released
September 22, 2009
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![Adaptive optics image of Titan showing storm feature.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20091025031722im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/titan_l1.jpg) |
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Methane Clouds Observed Near Titan's Equator May Explain Presence of Riverbeds on the Surface The Huygens probe discovered fluid-formed channels in the arid equatorial regions of Titan, Saturn's largest moon Released
August 12, 2009
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![Photo of Charles Sykes and two graduate students using a scanning tunneling microscope.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20091025031722im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/nanomotor1_l.jpg) |
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Chemist Aims to Turn Molecules Into Motors Charles Sykes and his team use scanning tunneling microscopes to study novel molecular motors and rotors Released
July 22, 2009
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![Graphical representation of seven test molecule structures.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20091025031722im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/algorithm_gpu1_l.jpg) |
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Video Game Technology and Science? Chemists use the computer technology behind today’s video games to rapidly calculate the structure of molecules Released
July 15, 2009
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Every Breath You Take Scientists search for an understanding of the air-water interface and its effect on air quality Released
July 13, 2009
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![Photo showing Caroline Moore at work in her home observatory](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20091025031722im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/supernova1_l.jpg) |
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New Supernova Is Discovered by Young Citizen Scientist Caroline Moore's discovery has made experts question how stars die Released
July 9, 2009
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![Illustration showing scanning tunneling microscopy and angle-resolved photo-electron spectroscopy.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20091025031722im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/pseudogap_l1.jpg) |
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Exploring High-temperature Superconductivity and the Pseudogap Research using two complimentary techniques increases understanding of superconductor materials Released
June 15, 2009
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![Photo of JILA's strontium atomic clock.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20091025031722im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/atomic_clock_l.jpg) |
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Coping With Unusual Atomic Collisions Makes an Atomic Clock More Accurate Researchers have figured out how to nullify collision effects and make the clock still more precise Released
May 20, 2009
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![Photo showing bright red-orange photoluminescence from porous silicon nanoparticles.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20091025031722im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/safenano1_l.jpg) |
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Safer Nano Cancer Detector Nanoparticle test in mice could pave the way for human uses Released
April 30, 2009
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Improved Lithium Ion Battery Technology Could Fast-charge Electric Vehicles, Boost Acceleration "Beltway" coating on cathode eases ions' way into crystalline tunnels Released
April 22, 2009
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A Better Mass for the W Boson; Higgs Boson Given Less Space to Hide Analyzing several years' worth of results from Fermilab's Tevatron collider, physicists come up with the most accurate measurement to date of the mass of the W boson, and narrow down the possible mass of the still undiscovered Higgs boson Released
April 7, 2009
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Squeezing Noise Below Quantum Limits Exquisitely sensitive microwave amplifier increases nano-scale measurement accuracy; could lead to quantum computing breakthroughs Released
March 26, 2009
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A Beautiful Memory Breakthrough in "entanglement" demonstrates potential of quantum information science Released
March 17, 2009
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2008: Year in Review A look back at some of the NSF-supported advances and activities that made news last year Released
March 13, 2009
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![Image showing the red and blue letters retrieved from a data cube.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20091025031722im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/smallest_letters1_l.jpg) |
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New Record for World's Smallest Letters Stanford University breaks record set in 1991, promises denser information storage Released
March 10, 2009
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Shockwave of X-ray Starquake Enthralls Scientists For postdoctoral researcher Andrew Steiner and other astrophysicists, the shockwave that jolted the Earth in late December 2005 was a lucky find, providing new data on neutron stars Released
March 2, 2009
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![Illustration showing information from left atom teleported to right atom three feet away.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20091025031722im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/teleport_l.jpg) |
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How to Teleport Quantum Information from One Atom to Another Researchers have shown for the first time how to use a process called teleportation to transfer a quantum state over a significant distance from one atom to another Released
February 25, 2009
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Excited Atoms Advance Quantum Computing Scientists using a single atom to control another with the Rydberg Blockade principle have moved a step closer to unimaginable computing power Released
February 24, 2009
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![Photo of researchers Bret Flanders and Prem Thapa in their laboratory at Kansas State University.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20091025031722im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/nanowire_l1.jpg) |
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Electrical Nanowires Probe Individual Cells Radically new technology for studying and controlling cells at the nanoscale Released
February 20, 2009
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![Photomicrograph of biocompatible, bioactive glass.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20091025031722im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/glass1_l1.jpg) |
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Reflecting on the Many Uses of Glass The director of NSF's International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass at Lehigh University focuses on glass research and exciting students from underrepresented groups about glass science and engineering Released
February 20, 2009
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Nanoscale Repulsion Tiny quantum force, measured for the first time, could be an aid to nanodevice designers Released
February 19, 2009
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![Image showing ball and stick model of two crossing carbon nanotubes on a graphite surface.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20091025031722im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/nanotube1_l.jpg) |
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Measuring Excitement for Carbon Nanotubes Studying light pulses in nanoscale molecules brings scientists closer to understanding properties that may lead to a multitude of applications Released
February 10, 2009
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Did You Say Flexible Electronics? Organic electronic devices possible with supercritical carbon dioxide process Released
February 2, 2009
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New Galactic Distance Measurements Increase Milky Way's Mass and Rotation Speed Galaxy is spinning faster and is 50 percent more massive than earlier studies indicated Released
January 30, 2009
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Pore-free Ceramics Shine New Light on Lasers, Electronics and Biomedical Implants Novel process for developing transparent ceramics from powder eliminates pores Released
January 29, 2009
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Cheaper Plastic Solar Cells in the Works South Dakota State University’s Diane Hinkens describes her work in an interdisciplinary research collaboration that is trying to design, synthesize and eventually fabricate a more efficient and less costly solar cell Released
January 13, 2009
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For the "Few-Body Problem," a Solution From Another Plane Complex ionization collisions can be explained with a "simple" classical model Released
December 29, 2008
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![Counterfeit (left) and genuine (right) samples of artesunate from Cameroon.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20091025031722im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/fake_drugs1_l1.jpg) |
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Fake Drugs Exposed by Rapid Chemical Assay Forensic chemistry leads to shut down of large-scale drug counterfeiting operation in Southeast Asia Released
December 18, 2008
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