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[:es]’Quantum friction’ slows water flow through carbon nanotubes, resolving long-standing fluid dynamics mystery[:]

For 15 years, scientists have been baffled by the mysterious way water flows through the tiny passages of carbon nanotubes—pipes with walls that can be just one atom thick. The streams have confounded all theories of fluid dynamics; paradoxically, fluid passes more easily through narrower nanotubes, and in all nanotubes it moves with almost no…

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[:es]Highly precise wiring in the cerebral cortex[:]

Our brains house extremely complex neuronal circuits whose detailed structures are still largely unknown. This is especially true for the cerebral cortex of mammals, where, among other things, vision, thoughts or spatial orientation are computed. Here, the rules by which nerve cells are connected to each other are only partly understood. A team of scientists…

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[:eu]Tracking particles at the energy frontier[:]

A new age of exploration dawned at the start of Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider, as protons began colliding at the unprecedented centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV.

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[:eu]The ultimate green technology: Creating computers that use 10,000 times less energy[:]

Imagine patterning and visualizing silicon at the atomic level, something which, if done successfully, will revolutionize the quantum and classical computing industry. A team of scientists in Edmonton, Canada has done just that, led by a world-renowned physicist and his up-and-coming protégé.

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[:eu]Isotopic similarities seen in materials that formed Earth, moon[:]

Most scientific models contend the Earth formed gradually by addition from an assortment of moon- to Mars-sized masses that had a vast array of isotopic characteristics. New research published Jan. 26 in Nature maintains the Earth, as well as the moon and certain meteorites, were formed from materials that were more similar, holding almost indistinguishable…