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Molecular Currents

30 October 2009
Researchers measured how the electrical conductance between two C60 molecules depends on their distance and orientation.
article link PRL (13 November 2009)
STM images of buckyballs

Storage Ring Dust-Up

26 October 2009
Researchers confirmed that dust contamination is the main cause of sudden beam failure in high energy electron experiments. They also saw flashes of the dust in video recordings of the beam.
article link PRSTAB (November 2009)
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ESRF at night

So Close, yet So Far

16 October 2009
Relic neutrinos from the big bang have come from a region of the universe much nearer than the famous cosmic microwaves, even though they are older.
article link PRL (23 October 2009)
LSST

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