Science

Scientists Apply Semi-Conductive, Magnetic Photocatalysts to Purify Wastewater

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Conformal transfer of graphene for reproducible device fabrication

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Reliable wafer scale production of graphene devices.

Perseid meteors to light up summer skies

The evening of Wednesday 12 August into the morning of Thursday 13 August sees the annual maximum of the Perseid meteor shower. This year, a new moon makes prospects for watching this natural firework display particularly good.

Charge density and optical properties of multicomponent crystals

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APIs in the design of multi-component functional solids are shown.

Copper clusters capture and convert carbon dioxide to make fuel

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A copper tetramer catalyst created by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory may help capture and convert carbon dioxide in a way that...

Flexible dielectric polymer can stand the heat

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Researcher holds flexible dielectric material. Pull out shows boron nitride nanosheets.

World's quietest gas lets physicists hear faint quantum effects

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In most ultracold Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC), the quantum gas (yellow peak) is accompanied by normal gas jiggling with thermal noise (...

Atomic view of microtubules: Berkeley Lab researchers achieve record 3.5 angstroms resolution and visualize action of a major microtubule-regulating protein

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Microtubules are hollow cylinders with walls made up of tubulin proteins -- alpha (green) and beta (blue) -- plus EB proteins (orange)...