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From Scotch Tape to Deli Sandwiches: Future 2D Materials

Science Spotlights

Aug 25, 2014

The emerging ability to precisely engineer 2D materials could open design pathways to future-generation microelectronic devices, improved batteries, and even new types of liquid crystals.

Aug 25, 2014

Three 'mapmakers' of the universe discuss how their dramatically intricate 3-D universes can tell important stories about the cosmos.

Aug 20, 2014

Three exoplanet hunters came together to discuss the discovery boom, consider the next steps in the hunt for habitable worlds, and debate whether we're likely to find alien life in the next decade.

Jul 09, 2014

Three geneticists – James Sikela of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, James Noonan of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale, and Daniel Geschwind of UCLA – discuss how their field is revolutionizing the study of human brain evolution.

Jul 07, 2014