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King's College London finds rainbows on nanoscale: Big impact on solar cells, television screens

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Researchers at King's College London discovered how to separate colors and create "rainbows" using nanoscale structures on a metal surface...

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Planck spots hot gas bridging galaxy cluster pair

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Galaxy clusters connected by gas bridge

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NASA Spacecraft Observe Nov. 20 Solar Eruption

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NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) captured...

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So BRIGHT, you need to wear shades: Tiny probes shine brightly to reveal the location of targeted tissues

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Nanostructures called BRIGHTs seek out biomarkers on cells and then beam brightly to reveal their locations. In the tiny gap between the...

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What Goes Down Must Come Back Up

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A new NASA study finds that global sea level, which dipped sharply in 2010-11 due to a strong La Nina event, has...

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What Goes Down Must Come Back Up

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A new NASA study finds that global sea level, which dipped sharply in 2010-11 due to a strong La Nina event, has...

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Direct Imaging of a Super-Jupiter Around a Massive Star

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Left (a): A false-color, near-infrared (1.2 - 2.4 microns) image of the Kappa And system. Image processing removed the light from...

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Rice unveils super-efficient solar-energy technology

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The solar steam device developed at Rice University has an overall energy efficiency of 24 percent, far surpassing that of photovoltaic...

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