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The 15 best electron microscope images of 2011

Evan Ackerman
Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 6:44am
 
There's a whole world out there that we're incapable of seeing without the aid of very complicated an expensive electronics. On the large scale, we're talking about looking at the universe through telescopes, but it works the other way, too, using things like electron microscopes to explore the inherent beauty of the very, very small.

There is now a cure for 'feeling like crap'

Evan Ackerman
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 9:07am
 
Being sick sucks. And while we can't always cure what ails us, researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have figured out where that general feeling of lousiness we get when we're stick actually comes from, and they think they can make it go away.

Researchers build an audio superlens out of soda cans

Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 2:15pm
 
A superlens is something that focuses audio into much smaller regions than their soundwaves normally allow. Essentially, "the cans act as resonators, directing the volume of the sound to peak in a space just a few centimetres wide, and this heightened precision could improve acoustic-actuator systems." And wouldn't you know it, but soda cans are perfect for the job.

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