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Innovative catalyst fabrication method may yield breakthrough in fuel cell development: Kyushu University research group develops new method for creating highly efficient gold nanoparticle catalysts for fuel cells

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New nanoparticle technology to decipher structure and function of membrane proteins

According to the researchers, the new Salipro technology may offer a wide range of potential applications; from structural biology to the...

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IMF Executive Board Concludes 2015 Article IV Consultation with Montenegro

On February 19, 2016 the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Montenegro.
Montenegro’s economy has rebounded in the past year, and strong growth looks set to continue in 2016, at...

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Irregular silicon wafer breakage studied in real-time by direct and diffraction X-ray imaging

On the left are the direct transmission images. On the right are the diffraction images.

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Nanoscale rotor and gripper push DNA origami to new limits: Dietz lab's latest DNA nanomachines demonstrate dynamics and precision

Rotor mechanism assembled from 3-D DNA components.

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Graphene slides smoothly across gold: Professor Xinliang Feng co-authors publication in Science journal

A graphene nanoribbon was anchored at the tip of an atomic force microscope and dragged over a gold surface. The observed friction force...

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Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance Record

Hubble Space Telescope astronomers, studying the northern hemisphere field from the Great Observatories Origins...

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What makes penguin feathers ice-proof

The range of Humboldt penguins extends from coastal Peru to the tip of southern Chile. Some of these areas can get frigid, and the water the birds swim in is part of a cold ocean current that sweeps up the coast from the Antarctic.

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