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State aid: Commission approves £50 million UK support for the research and development of an innovative space launcher engine

The European Commission has found that a £50 million (around €71 million) grant that the UK authorities intend to provide for designing a SABRE space launcher engine is in line with EU state aid rules. SABRE is a research and development (R&D)...

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Attosecond physics: Attosecond electron catapult: Physicists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich studied the interaction of light with tiny glass particles

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Directional electron acceleration on glass nanospheres. A femtosecond laser pulse (coming from the left) hits a glass nanosphere. The light...

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New optical chip lights up the race for quantum computer

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This is the silicon based quantum optics lab-on-a-chip.

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Newly Discovered World Is Most Like Jupiter

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Discovery image of 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager taken in the near-infrared light on December 18, 2014....

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NASA's Hubble Finds Supernovae in 'Wrong Place at Wrong Time'

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These Hubble Space Telescope images show elliptical galaxies with dark, wispy dust lanes, the...

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Discovery in growing graphene nanoribbons could enable faster, more efficient electronics

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Progressively zoomed-in images of graphene nanoribbons grown on germanium. The ribbons automatically align perpendicularly and naturally...

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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.

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