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Iranian Scientists Build Fuel Cells with Appropriate Performance at High Temperature

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Iranian researchers from Amirkabir University of Technology produced nanocomposite membranes that are able to improve performance of...

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Nanocomposite Sensors Detect Toxic Gases

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CU-Boulder ultrafast microscope used to make slow-motion electron movie

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This is an image captured by CU-Boulder researchers using an ultrafast optical microscope shows clouds of electrons oscillating in gold...

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Light used to measure the 'big stretch' in spider silk proteins

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Graphene becomes superconductive -- Electrons with 'no mass' flow with 'no resistance'

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This is the crystal structure of Ca-intercalated bilayer graphene fabricated on SiC substrate. Insertion of Ca atoms between two graphene...

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Breaking cell barriers with retractable protein nanoneedles: Adapting a bacterial structure, Wyss Institute researchers develop protein actuators that can mechanically puncture cells

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In this time-lapse, retractable protein actuators called "R bodies" - found naturally in certain bacteria - are seen extending from barely-...

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Earth-like Planets Have Earth-like Interiors

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Replacement of Toxic Antibacterial Agents Possible by Biocompatible Polymeric Nanocomposites

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