Science

Unexpected discovery leads to a better battery: Renewable energy storage possible thanks to chemical conversions

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PNNL's improved aqueous zinc-manganese oxide battery offers a cost-effective, environmentally friendly alternative for storing renewable...

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System creates on-demand 'nanotube forests,' has potential industry applications

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This graphic illustrates a system that uses a laser and electrical field to precisely position and align carbon nanotubes, representing a...

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Investigating the Mystery of Migrating 'Hot Jupiters'

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The turbulent atmosphere of a hot, gaseous planet known as HD 80606b is shown in this simulation based on data from...

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NASA's Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-Earth

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This illustration shows one possible scenario for the hot, rocky exoplanet called 55 Cancri e,...

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New nanodevice shifts light's color at single-photon level

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False-colored scanning electron micrograph of the nanophotonic frequency converter, consisting of a ring-shaped resonator (shaded blue)...

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Quantum computing closer as RMIT drives towards first quantum data bus: RMIT researchers trialling a quantum processor capable of routing information from different locations have found a pathway towards the quantum data bus

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Quantum information is encoded in single particles of light (photons). The perfect state transfer is applied to one photon of an...

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Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust

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Of the millions of dust grains Cassini has sampled at Saturn, a few dozen appear to have come from beyond our...

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A Space Spider Watches Over Young Stars

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The Spider Nebula lies about 10,000 light-years away from Earth and is a site of active star formation.

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