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Gold Nanoparticles on a Roll
The optical or electronic properties of nanoparticles can differ from those of the bulk material through confinement effects and through their interactions with one another through space. The possibilities for ? [Read more]
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Keeping Fungal Invaders at Bay
Plant cells mobilize a cell-autonomous response to the sites of attempted fungal penetration, resulting in the polarization of the peroxisome. The mechanism driving this polarization has remained unclear. Now Clay ? [Read more]
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Ultra Clean, Ultra Small
Carbon nanotubes have generally been found to fall into two categories--metallic or insulating. Deshpande et al. (p. 106) now report transport measurements on ultraclean individual single-walled carbon nanotubes. Even though ? [Read more]
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Adding Injury to Insult
Coral reefs worldwide are under terrible pressure from rising sea-surface temperatures, pollution, and overexploitation. Another emerging threat to their health is ocean acidification--the declining pH of surface seawater layers caused ? [Read more]
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A Warped Route to Cloaking
Transformation optics and metamaterials allow the manipulation of light with unprecedented control, giving rise to possibilities like invisibility, hyperlensing, and cloaking. However, most approaches so far have been based on ? [Read more]
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Right on Target
Cotranslational protein targeting to membranes involves signal recognition particle (SRP) and its receptor. SRP contains a noncoding RNA, which catalytically accelerates the interaction of SRP with its receptor. Bradshaw et ? [Read more]
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Bright Shiny Flowers
The study of flower color has primarily focused on chemical pigmentation. Whitney et al. (p. 130) explore how the structural features on the petal surface of a tulip flower generate ? [Read more]
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