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• Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms Noviembre 5, 2009
  Harvard physicists have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways. The work, published this week in the journal Nature, represents the first time scientists have detected single atoms in a crystalline structure made solely of l […]
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• Materials scientists find better model for glass creation Noviembre 4, 2009
  Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common window glass.Glasses form through the process of vitrification, in which a glass-forming liquid cools and slowly becomes a solid whose molecules, though they’ve stopped moving, are not permanently loc […]
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• Orphan army ants join nearby colonies Noviembre 4, 2009
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• Face it: Octubre 30, 2009
  Gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women, according to the results of a new study by a Harvard researcher.The findings suggest that regardless of sexual orientation, men’s brains are wired for attraction to sexually dimorphic faces — those with facial features that are most synonymous […]
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• To tell the truth Octubre 29, 2009
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• Darkness with the light Octubre 26, 2009
  Adult survivors of childhood cancer have an increased risk of suicidal thoughts, even decades after their cancer treatments have ended, according to a study led by Harvard researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). read more
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• Finding the seat of language? Octubre 23, 2009
  A team of Harvard and University of California, San Diego (UCSD), researchers report having pinpointed an area of the brain where three essential components of language — word identification, grammar, and word pronunciation — are processed.Ned T.read more
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• Harvard scientists bend nanowires into 2-D and 3-D structures Octubre 21, 2009
  Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, Harvard researchers have determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging two- and three-dimensional structures with correspondingly advanced functions. The work is described this week in in a letter in the journal Nature Nanotechnology by scientis […]
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• Researchers exploit genetic ‘co-dependence’ to kill treatment-resistant tumor cells Octubre 20, 2009
  Cancer cells fueled by the mutant KRAS oncogene, which makes them notoriously difficult to treat, can be killed by blocking a more vulnerable genetic partner of KRAS, report scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. read more
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• Bringing new meaning to the term scientific paper Octubre 19, 2009
  An insight from the labs of Harvard chemist George M. Whitesides and cell biologist Donald Ingber is likely to make a fundamental shift in how biologists grow and study cells – and it’s as cheap and easy as reaching for a paper towel.read more
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