Science News for Kids: Snapshot: Sticky Silky Feet
The feet of zebra tarantulas can produce silk threads that may help them get a firmer grip. Comic book superhero Spider-Man uses tiny hairs on his fingertips to climb up walls. But he could have had another secret weapon to help him ... [... more]
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Density-Functional Methods in Chemistry and Materials ...
 Used in materials science, physical chemistry and physics, density functional methods provide a unifying description of electronic properties applicable to all materials while also giving specific information on the system under study. A large number of [... more]
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Science News for Kids: Snapshot: A Butterfly's Electric Glow
The brilliant color of some butterfly wings comes from tiny scales that absorb and give off light in a special way. The blue-green streaks of a swallowtail butterfly's wings are more than just beautiful. They're also a lesson in ... [... more]
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Science News for Kids: Snapshot: Lighting goes digital
Computers have transformed our lives so completely that it’s difficult to remember what life was like before the digital age. But only a few decades ago, people used typewriters for writing, and calculators solved math and money issues. You ... [... more]
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Science News for Kids: Snapshot: Hair Detectives
Scientists have found a way to figure out where a person is from and where he or she has been, just by looking at samples of the person's hair. You can tell a lot about people by looking at their hair—and not just whether they brush, spray, or ... [... more]
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Science News for Kids: Snapshot: Preserving Ancient ...
Chemistry helps keep paint on ancient clay statues from cracking and quickly peeling off. Unearthing the distant past is one thing. Preserving it is another. Chemistry can be part of the answer. Over the last 30 years, archaeologists have dug up ... [... more]
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Science News for Kids: Feature: Music of the Future
Scientists create new technologies that can make any surface — from a desk to a wall — sing. The musical instruments of the future may be right in front of your eyes and on the tables, walls and windows around you. All it takes to use them is the ... [... more]
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Liquid Crystals In Complex Geometries
Focusing on the applied and basic aspects of confined liquid crystals, this book provides a current treatise of the subject matter and places it in the broader context of electrooptic applications. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the [... more]
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Science News for Kids: Snapshot: Cooking Up Superhard ...
Popping diamonds into a high-pressure oven can make these hard minerals even harder. Diamonds are more than just sparkling gems. They also happen to be one of the hardest materials on Earth. Now, scientists have found a way to make diamonds even ... [... more]
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Handbook of Magnetic Materials
Volume 10 of the Handbook is composed of topical review articles written by leading authorities. In each of these articles an extensive description is given in graphical as well as in tabular form, much emphasis being placed on the discussion of the [... more]
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Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Examines the optical properties of low-dimensional semiconductor structures, a hot research area - for graduate students and researchers.Low-dimensional semiconductor structures, often referred to as nanocrystals or quantum dots, exhibit fascinating [... more]
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Basics of Nanotechnology
This extended and revised edition of the successful German version is a clearly structured and easily readable introduction, written by an experienced author with sound knowledge of experimental synthesis and analysis of nanostructures.brDeveloped from [... more]
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