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2D or Not 2D: Crystals that open up New Dimensions
Scientists invent a deceptively simple way to build a helter-skelter of atoms
These microscopic butterflies are one of the smallest, lightest and most expensive ones in the world as they partially consist of the novel one atom thick material graphene
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
EVERYTHING is made of atoms. To understand this, we’re asked to imagine that the smooth continuous materials around us are each made up of tiny lumps.
Rather than acting like little inert building bricks, each is humming with the energy of existing. Every atom is itself an immense void with even tinier positive and negative charged matter suspended in space, whizzing round each other and changing configuration to give the atom its own particular properties.
The dynamism of the charges moving around and interacting both inside the atom and outside of it defines the ways that charge and energy can move between them, through space, sometimes joining them together in configurations of molecules of infinite variety.
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