Date: 30 May,14(QuickNews.com)
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*Printable Robots That Self-Assemble When Heated:
Using new algorithms and electronic components, researchers demonstrate the promise of printable robotic components that, when heated, automatically fold into prescribed three-dimensional configurations. Printable robots — those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers — have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna.
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*A Path Toward a New Breed of Miniature Particle Accelerators:
Berkley Lab researchers show how beams of various colors and phases affect plasma, finding that laser light needn’t be as precise as previously thought to drive miniature particle accelerators. Making a tabletop particle accelerator just got easier. A new study shows that certain requirements for the lasers used in an emerging type of small-area particle.
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*NASA Scientists Measure the Deformation of the Moon:
Using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, scientists measure the deformation of the moon due to Earth’s pull and learn more about the interior of the moon. Scientists combined observations from two NASA missions to check out the moon’s lopsided shape and how it changes under Earth’s sway.