Science

Rice uses light to remotely trigger biochemical reactions: Deep-sea microbes that thrive in high temperatures are key to light-activated catalysis

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Chemical processes can be activated by light without the need for bulk heating of a material through a process developed by researchers at...

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Nanocrystals Not Small Enough to Avoid Defects: Berkeley Lab Scientists at Advanced Light Source Show Dislocations Can Be Induced by Pressure in Ultrafine Nanocrystals

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Stress-induced deformation of nanocrystalline nickel reflects the dislocation activity observed by researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced...

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Twin NASA Probes Prepare for Dec. 17 Mission-Ending Moon Impact

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Mars Rover Self-Portrait Shoot Uses Arm Choreography

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On the 84th and 85th Martian days of the NASA Mars rover Curiosity's mission on Mars (Oct. 31...

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Curiosity Rover Nearing Yellowknife Bay

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The NASA Mars rover Curiosity used its Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the mission's 120th Martian day to record this view of...

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Imec Shows Path Toward Non-Si Devices at IEDM 2012

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Comparison of mobility in unstrained and strained Si and Ge p-FinFETs. Unstrained Ge shows degraded mobility w.r.t. strained Si. Strained...

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Imec paves the way for intelligent item-level RFID tagging to replace bar codes: World-first UHF IGZO Schottky diode is breakthrough achievement towards low-cost passive thin-film RFID tags

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Imec’s world-first ultrahigh frequency IGZO Schottky diode

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NASA's GRAIL Creates Most Accurate Moon Gravity Map

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The variations in the lunar gravity field as measured by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (...

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