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Even in our digital world, materials still matter

Shutterstock/JavierLizarazo These days, our lives revolve around the digital world. Money, culture, news, gossip – all of it lives there. Generative artificial intelligence is the biggest story in the world, but could you point to where that technology is physically located? The material world just isn’t where the action is. And yet, despite appearances, we...

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Scientists just made the first time crystal you can see

Imagine a clock that doesn’t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that are in your phone display, to create such a clock — or, at least, as close as...

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Cancer puts healthy cells to work with this surprising trick

Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Cancer cells provide healthy neighboring cells with additional cell powerhouses to put them to work, researchers report. Tumors have developed many strategies and tricks to gain advantages in the body. Led by cell biology professor Sabine Werner, researchers at...