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In this illustration, water travels through carbon nanotubes at a rate 10,000 to 100,000 times faster than models predict. Credit: M. Denomme, Univ. of KY.
Slippery when wet

NSF Current features cutting-edge research in science and engineering. The monthly newsletter archive includes articles on real-time traffic routing, coastal observation and prediction, stress and the brain, cooler computer chips, biodiversity databases, the light-activated switch in plants, fluids racing through carbon nanotubes, and more. (National Science Foundation)

Interesting fact: By comparing the genetic code from 6,000-year-old remains of Adelie penguins in Antarctica with that of modern Adelies living at the same site, researchers have shown that microevolution, the process of evolutionary change at or below the species level, has taken place in the population. Read more.

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