Tesla Is Prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse

Tesla’s supercharger network will be equipped with solar panels and batteries to ride-out power outages.

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Gigapixel Holographic Microscope Made From A4 Paper Scanner

The A4 digital scanner gathering dust under your desk could find new life as a gigapixel holographic microscope, say Japanese engineers who have constructed one at minimal cost

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Life and Death of Tweets Not so Random After All

Researchers have created a model to quickly predict how many times a tweet will be retweeted.

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Internet’s Annual Report Card Shows China’s Rise

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Physicists Unveil World’s Most Precise Clock (And a Twin to Compare It Against)

A pair of clocks that lose only one “tick” in 10^18 “tocks” have been unveiled by an international team of physicists

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Metals Become Molecular-Like at the Atomic Scale, Reveal Materials Scientists

Atomic force measurements show that the bond between two gold atoms is highly directional and molecular-like, a finding with significant implications for the design and construction of atomic-scale devices

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Other Interesting arXiv Papers (Week Ending 25 May 2013)

The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server

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Now Television Advertisers Know You’re Tweeting

If you tweet about a TV show or its ads, don’t be surprised if the advertisers “sponsored tweet” you back.

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