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Materials Science

Wiregate: Metallic picket fence flips magnetic bits

Rather than relegate magnetic fields to the usual backup role of data storage for computers, a new microcircuit exploits those fields for computation, possibly leading to cheaper, lower-power chips than traditional electronic ones.

Plants

Mirror Image: Flowers with opposite styles have a fling

Scientists have discovered a gene that controls whether flowers lean to the left or the right.

Astronomy

Outlier Planet: Extrasolar places that are like home

A team of veteran hunters of planets outside the solar system has come up with a landmark finding: a Jupiterlike planet orbiting a Sunlike star at a Jupiterlike distance.