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Lithium-ion batteries
Lithium-ion batteries already power your cell phone and your laptop, and they may soon power your car. What makes these batteries so great? Read More »
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Mildred "Millie" Dresselhaus
Millie Dresselhaus is one of the very first laser scientists. She quickly took this new invention and started using it to investigate the properties of matter. As well as pioneering laser science, she has promoted opportunities for women in science.
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Death From the Skies
"The Universe is trying to kill you. It's nothing personal. It's trying to kill me too" Astronomer, Phil Plait, describes how everything from asteroids to gamma ray burst would end impact the Earth. Continue »
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Ka-Blammo!
In case you haven't heard, the massive Large Hadron Collider in Geneva Switzerland had its first proton collisions over the weekend after shutting down last September. This means that the world's largest most complicated machine is now back, and ready to search for the hypothesized Higgs boson, the particle theorized to give matter its mass.The LHC is on record as the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Not only that, it really is the world's largest and most complex machine... Read more »
