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A Cut Above the Rest

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Manoj K. Chaudhury, Physics 5, 139 (2012) – Published December 10, 2012
A study reveals the optimal balance of forces needed to make the cleanest cuts in soft solids.
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Are Mammals Ferroelectric?

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Bin Chen and Huajian Gao, Physics 5, 19 (2012) – Published February 13, 2012
The discovery of ferroelecticity in mammalian tissue makes researchers wonder what its purpose is and what it may be useful for.
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How the Ice Floes Flow

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Published November 10, 2011
The behavior of the increasingly thin ice found in the Arctic Ocean can be modeled as a two-dimensional, granular gas.
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Making the probe the center of the experiment

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Rolf Erni, Physics 4, 32 (2011) – Published April 18, 2011
To better interpret the information in images, electron microscopists are looking more closely at how an electron beam scatters inside of a specimen.
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Cathedral’s invisible earthquake damage

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Published March 10, 2011
Properties of vibrations in a pillar in a 1400-year-old Sicilian cathedral correlate with those of very small, nearby earthquakes, suggesting new ways of monitoring the gradual damage that such quakes can inflict on old buildings.
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Raising the temperature on density-functional theory

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Emil Prodan, Physics 3, 99 (2010) – Published November 22, 2010
A new analysis clears some of the remaining hurdles to a completely rigorous density-functional theory for calculating the properties of materials at finite temperature.