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For policymakers and economists, the context is what determines the inflationary impact of an energy shock as much as the scale and duration of the shock itself.

From The Wall Street Journal

"These animals can physically change their bodies at close to the micron scale, and now we can dynamically control the topography of a material - and the visual properties linked to it - at this same scale."

From Science Daily

Participants recorded everything they ate using a mobile app and weighed themselves daily with a wireless scale.

From Science Daily

"It's not a binary on/off effect; it can be a scaled response, like a dimmer, depending on the light you shine on it," she said.

From Science Daily

These microscopic machines could also assemble ultra-precise data storage systems and computing devices at the nanometer scale.

From Science Daily