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Sometimes it is hard to see the light, especially it lies in the invisible spectrum, like ultrared, ultraviolet radiation. But if you long to see the unseeable, you might interested to hear that under certain conditions people can catch a glimpse of

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? The Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to three men who revolutionized molecular life science, Japans Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien. They dev

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science, I am Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute. Imagine tweezers so fine that you could reach right into a cell and manipulate individual molecules. MIT researchers have created such a tweezer, using

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Imagine a world where sunlight can be captured to produce electricity anywhere, on any surface. The makers of thin-film flexible solar cells imagine that world too. But a big problem has been the amount of silicon needed to harvest a little sunshine.

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When people suffer from a migraine, they often retire to a cave-like dark room. But exactly why does bright light hurt the migraine sufferer? A possible answer was published this week in the online issue of journal Nature Neuroscience. A big clue was

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