Science

Spintronics: Molecules stabilizing magnetism: Organic molecules fixing the magnetic orientation of a cobalt surface/ building block for a compact and low-cost storage technology/ publication in Nature Materials

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The magnetic moments of the three organic molecules and the cobalt surface align very stably relative to each other.

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UK and South African Space Agencies to increase collaboration

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South Africa pictured from space.

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NASA’s New Horizons Team Finds Haze, Flowing Ice on Pluto

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Backlit by the sun, Pluto’s atmosphere rings its silhouette like a luminous halo in this...

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Penn researchers discover new chiral property of silicon, with photonic applications

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By encoding information in photons via their spin, photonic computers could be orders of magnitude faster and efficient than their current-...

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Gaia satellite and amateur astronomers spot one in a billion star

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Artist’s impression of Gaia14aae.

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Nanowires give 'solar fuel cell' efficiency a tenfold boost: Eindhoven researchers make important step towards a solar cell that generates hydrogen

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Array of nanowires gallium phosphide made with an electron microscope.

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NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’

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In the center left of Pluto’s vast heart-shaped feature – informally named “Tombaugh Regio” -...

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Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s 'Heart'

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This annotated view of a portion of Pluto’s Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), named for Earth’s first artificial satellite,...

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