Fickle fluids
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Development of electrorheological (ER) fluids has brought about research in automotive and industrial applications, but scientists have not found a way to convert the fluids into a single, usable product. The research is slowed because ERs do not function well outside of conventional situations.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1992
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Catching the wave
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The detection of gravitational waves may help scientists study gravity and the universe. The government has given a group of physicists $211 million to construct the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1992
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Adapting to complexity
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The Santa Fe Institute is an interdisciplinary research group that assembled to search for a unified theory that explains the principles that govern all complex adaptive systems.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1993
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