Science

Astronomers find newborn stars at the edge of the Galaxy

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Negative WISE W1 image of the newly found cluster Camargo 438. The cluster is about 16,000 light years away, so the image is about 24 light...

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Scientific breakthrough in rechargeable batteries: Researchers from Singapore and Québec Team Up to Develop Next-Generation Materials to Power Electronic Devices and Electric Vehicles

"IBN researchers have successfully achieved simultaneous control of the phase purity and nanostructure of Li2MnSiO4 for the first time," said Professor Jackie Y. Ying, IBN Executive Director. "This novel synthetic approach would allow us to move...

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First detailed microscopy evidence of bacteria at the lower size limit of life: Berkeley Lab research provides comprehensive description of ultra-small bacteria

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This cryo-electron tomography image reveals the internal structure of an ultra-small bacteria cell like never before. The cell has a very...

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Living on the Edge: Stars Found Far from Galaxy Center

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The newfound young star clusters lie thousands of light-years below the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, a flat spiral disk seen...

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New Threat Center to Integrate Cyber Intelligence

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A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency image represents DARPA’s High-Assurance...

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In quest for better lithium-air batteries, chemists boost carbon's stability: Nanoparticle coatings improve stability, cyclability of '3DOm' carbon

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Chemists from Boston College and UMass Amherst applied two nano-scale coatings to a unique form of carbon, known as 3DOm. The resulting...

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New nanowire structure absorbs light efficiently: Dual-type nanowire arrays can be used in applications such as LEDs and solar cells

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Initially the substrate is prepared by depositing Au nanoparticles on it and covering it with a hole-patterned oxide. The first nanowires...

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Learning by eye: Silicon micro-funnels increase the efficiency of solar cells

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The scanning electron microscopies (SEM) show how regularly the funnels etched in a silicon substrate are arranged (left: the line segment...

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