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• Detecting mirror molecules

  Harvard physicists have developed a novel technique that can detect molecular variants in chemical mixtures – greatly simplifying a process that is one of the most important, though time-consuming, processes in analytical chemistry. As described in a paper in Nature, post-doctoral researcher David P more

• HX-splitting photocatalysis for solar fuels

  Photochemical HX splitting reactions (X = halogen) provide a route for solar-to-fuel energy conversion and halogen photoelimination is a critical step in the process. Scientists in the US have investigated the photoreduction mechanism of a pair of valence-isomeric dirhodium phosphazane complexes and more

• Cry me a river of possibility: Scientists design new adaptive material inspired by tears
  

  Imagine a tent that blocks light on a dry and sunny day, and becomes transparent and water-repellent on a dim, rainy day. Or highly precise, self-adjusting contact lenses that also clean themselves. Or pipelines that can optimize the rate of flow depending on the volume of fluid coming through them more

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• [News Focus] From Cosmic Dawn To Milkomeda, And Beyond

  The thoughts of Harvard University theorist Avi Loeb traverse the universe, past and future—and he urges young researchers to be just as daring. more

• Connectome [Core Concepts]

  pnas;110/15/5739/UNFIG01F1unfig01The mind’s tangled web: Electron microscope reconstruction of mouse brain cortex. Image courtesy of D. Berger, N. Kasthuri, H. S. Seung, and J. W. Lichtman (Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology).Ever since the 19th century Spanish pathologist more

• Q&A: Knowledge liberator

  Q&A: Knowledge liberator Nature 495, 7442 (2013). doi:10.1038/495447a Author: Robert Darnton Robert Darnton heads the world's largest collection of academic publications, the Harvard University Library system. He is also a driver beh more

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