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NASA Rover's Images Show Laser Flash on Martian Rock

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Adopting the euro: criteria, decision-making and the next countries in line

The euro zone could get bigger next year. After the European Commission said Lithuania was ready to adopt the common currency, the Parliament will vote on its opinion on 16 July. The final decision will be made by the Council at the end of July. Read on to find out how countries are assessed to see if they are ready to join the euro zone.

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Researchers discover boron 'buckyball'

The discovery of buckyballs — soccer-ball-shaped molecules of carbon — helped usher in the nanotechnology era. Now, Lai-Sheng Wang's research group and colleagues from China have shown that boron, carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, can form a cage-like molecule similar to the buckyball. Until now, such a boron structure had only been a theoretical speculation. The researchers dubbed their newfound nanostructure "borospherene."

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The carbon buckyball has a boron cousin. A cluster for 40 boron atoms forms a hollow cage-like molecule.

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Labs characterize carbon for batteries: Rice, Lawrence Livermore scientists calculate materials’ potential for use as electrodes

Lithium-ion batteries could benefit from a theoretical model created at Rice University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that predicts how carbon components will perform as electrodes.

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New work by scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Rice University details the binding properties of lithium ions to various types of carbon that may be used for lithium-ion batteries. The “universal descriptor” they found has the potential to speed the development of materials for commercialization.

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Sun-like Stars Reveal Their Ages

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Researchers Use Various Zinc Oxide Nanostructures to Boost Efficiency of Water Purification Process

An Iranian researcher in association with Swedish scientists studied the use of various nanostructures of zinc oxide in the improvement of the removal of industrial pollutants from water and the differences in their efficiencies.

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Radio-burst discovery deepens astrophysics mystery

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Brief pulse detected by Arecibo telescope appears to come from far beyond our galaxy

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Non-Enzyme Sensor Detects Lead, Hydrogen Peroxide

Iranian researchers in association with their Malaysian colleagues produced non-enzyme sensor that is able to measure poisonous and harmful species in industrial and medical applications.

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A review article summarizes the state-of-the-art knowledge about graphene grain boundaries

The graphene produced by chemical vapor deposition is typically polycrystalline. Authors from the ICN2 Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience Group, led by ICREA Research professor Stephan Roche, together with authors from Sungkyunkwan University, analyse in Advanced Materials the challenges and opportunities of these structures.

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Rice's silicon oxide memories catch manufacturers' eye: Use of porous silicon oxide reduces forming voltage, improves manufacturability

Rice University's breakthrough silicon oxide technology for high-density, next-generation computer memory is one step closer to mass production, thanks to a refinement that will allow manufacturers to fabricate devices at room temperature with conventional production methods.

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This scanning electron microscope image and schematic show the design and composition of new RRAM memory devices based on porous silicon oxide that were created at Rice University.