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Seeing Heat: The Sensory Systems of Boas, Pythons and Pit Vipers -- Science Nation

07/02/2014 01:07 PM EDT

Seeing Heat: The Sensory Systems of Boas, Pythons and Pit Vipers The natural thermal imaging capabilities of snakes could inspire new artificial sensors.

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New LHC detector technology: Installing the ATLAS IBL.

07/02/2014 01:07 PM EDT

Scientists and engineers installed a new component in the core of the ATLAS detector--one of two general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider. This new component, called the Insertable B-Layer, sits merely centimeters from the beamline and will allow ATLAS physicists to enhance their ...

 New LHC detector technology: Engineering the ATLAS IBL.

07/02/2014 01:07 PM EDT

Scientists and engineers installed a new component in the core of the ATLAS detector--one of two general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider. This new component, called the Insertable B-Layer, sits merely centimeters from the beamline and will allow ATLAS physicists to enhance their ...

Stanley Miller's forgotten experiments, analyzed.

07/02/2014 01:07 PM EDT

Stanley Miller, the chemist whose landmark experiment published in 1953 showed how some of the molecules of life could have formed on a young Earth, left behind boxes of experimental samples that he never analyzed. The first-ever analysis of Miller's old samples has revealed another way that ...