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According to Prof. Bartal, “The fact that a quasicrystal is a ‘shadow’ of a periodic crystal in a higher dimension is not new in itself. What we discovered is that the projection includes not only the ...

A spokesman for the army said the seizure of such a large amount of the synthetic drug - which in some forms is known by its street name crystal meth - would constitute a hard blow to whichever ...

Malta is home to some of the oldest and arguably most mysterious megalithic structures known to man, older than the Pyramids and Stonehenge. Malta’s ancient temples date back to 3600 to 2500 BC. Some ...

A crystal used in the study charges under UV light. The process created by Zhong Lab could be used with a variety of materials, taking advantage of rare earths’ powerful, flexible optical ...

They have two main functions: hearing and balance. Each ear is divided into an outer, middle, and inner section that have distinct structures. The tympanic membrane (eardrum) is the border between the ...

But now, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) researchers have explored a technique to make ones and zeroes out of crystal defects, each the size of an ...

Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the quasiperiodic crystal. According to diffraction ...

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At the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts, we continue to celebrate a huge milestone--more than 100 years as a college at the University of Oklahoma! Established in 1924, it was the fourth ...

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