Researchers have adapted a light-based technology employed widely in biology — known as optical traps or optical tweezers — to operate in a water-free liquid environment of carbon-rich organic solvents. …read more Source:: Science
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Venus flytrap ‘teeth’ form a ‘horrid prison’ for medium-sized prey
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•Researchers investigate the importance of marginal spikes, the ‘teeth’ lining the outer edge of the plant’s snap traps, in successfully capturing prey. …read more Source:: Science
How a ‘shadow zone’ traps the world’s oldest ocean water
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•New research has revealed why the oldest water in the ocean in the North Pacific has remained trapped in a shadow zone around 2km below the sea surface for over …read more Source:: Science
Scientists set traps for atoms with single-particle precision
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•Researchers report a new method to use lasers as optical “tweezers” to pick individual atoms out from a cloud and hold them in place. As the atoms are “trapped,” the …read more Source:: Science