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Swiss people usually share a deep love for their mountains. So it is not such a surprise to see that researchers from IBM Research in Zurich, after having developed a new ‘nano-carving’ method, wanted to show it at work by sculpting a nanometric version of our most famous peak.
In a recent article in Science, Pires [...]

After yesterday’s Nobel Prize in Physics which went to two relatively young researchers (Andre Geim* and Konstantin Novoselov from the University of Manchester) for a very recent discovery (graphene, isolated in 2004), today’s Prize in Chemistry went to much older people for discoveries made 40 years ago: Richard F. Heck (emeritus professor at the [...]