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One month with the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge: Can the gimmicks help set this phone apart?
The smartphone market is getting boring. Great cameras, killer screens and powerful processors abound, making it easy to find a phone that will fit your needs, but also overwhelming you with options that are hard to tell...
Seattle girls who sent a balloon to the edge of space are heading to the White House
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and now the White House are taking notice of two Seattle elementary school girls.
In September, intrepid innovators Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung successfully sent...
On-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edge topology
Graphene-based nanostructures exhibit electronic properties that are not present in extended graphene. For example, quantum confinement in carbon nanotubes and armchair graphene nanoribbons leads to the opening of substantial electronic bandgaps that are directly linked to their structural boundary conditions. Nanostructures with zigzag edges are expected to host spin-polarized electronic edge states and can thus serve as key elements for graphene-based spintronics. The edge...
Materials science: How crystals get an edge
Microscopy reveals how nanowires of a widely used semiconductor grow during preparation. The findings will allow the crystal phases of such nanowires to be engineered — a crucial advance for materials science. See Article p.317
Nature 531 308 doi: 10.1038/531308a
Edge browser now has extensions in the latest Windows 10 preview
One of the biggest features promised for Microsoft's new Edge browser was support for extensions written in HTML and JavaScript. Google developed an API for such extensions for Chrome, and it is being substantially adopted by Firefox. Microsoft said that it too would adopt this API for Edge, but extensions didn't make the cut in the November Update.
Since the November Update, Microsoft has released...
Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge hands on: So good you can almost forgive TouchWiz
Above the world in 80 minutes: Balloon company will fly to the edge of space
Who wouldn't want to see space from the comfort of a balloon capsule? (credit: World View)
There are balloon rides, and then there are balloon rides. And although it may sound like something out of a Jules Verne novel, a company called World View says it will begin taking passengers to the edge of outer space by...