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...Walt Disney’s most celebrated films, Captain John Smith holds a more practical position in American legend than simply that of the man Pocahontas saved; according Wikipedia’s encompassing entry on “American literature,” he was also the first American author. During the early 1600s, Smith, a prominent member of newly colonized Jamestown, penned several works on the then-nascent history of the land he had christened New England...
...When a general reader like yourself can’t understand something the fault is generally not in you but in the poor thinking [of the author],” she explains...
...discovery may prove useful in areas ranging from photovoltaics to recording voltages inside and outside cells, according to the study’s lead author Bozhi Tian, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Colleagues in the department yesterday acknowledged the significance of the research...
...problems in the nanotube community is how you take all these different Lego building blocks of nanoscience and put them together into more complex sort of structures,” said Thomas J. Kempa, a chemistry graduate student and author. “Any segment or element which allows you to break free from the one-dimensional space and move in another direction...
Aside from their potential use as a means of conducting electricity, the nanowires may serve to localize functionality at a particular point within the nanostructure, said Ping Xie, a postdoctoral fellow and author. With one-dimensional nanowires, it is currently difficult to determine where activity is concentrated within the linear wire...