molecules
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A New Storage Breakthrough Could Squeeze A Library’s Worth Of Data Into A Teaspoon Of Protein
By 2020, researchers estimate that the world’s digital archive will weigh in at around 44 trillion gigabytes. That’s an astounding amount of data that isn’t necessarily being stored in the safest of places. Most storage mediums naturally degrade over time (if they’re not hacked or accidentally destroyed) and even the cloud isn’t as reliable as…
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New Imaging Technique Shows How Complex Molecules Buck And Twist
It’s becoming gradually easier to see what molecules look like up close, but seeing how their shape changes in real-time is still incredibly hard. Now, a new technique allows scientists to see how molecules change their shape over the course just trillionths of a second.
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Scientists Film How The Brain Makes Memories For The First Time Ever
For the first time in history, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have captured how our brain makes memories in video, watching how molecules morph into the structures that, at the end of the day, make who we are. If there’s a soul, this how it gets made.
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The World’s Smallest Car Is A Single Molecule
Think the Smart car was too small to squeeze your fat arse into? You’re in for a whole new world of pain, because the smallest working car has been built — and it’s just one molecule in size.