Science

Living on the Edge: Stars Found Far from Galaxy Center

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

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

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

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

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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Purification of Industrial Wastewater Using Visible-Light Sensitive Photocatalysts

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Ultra-thin nanowires can trap electron 'twisters' that disrupt superconductors

This illustration depicts a short row of vortices held in place between the edges of a nanowire developed by Johns Hopkins scientists.

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KIT Increases Commitment in Asia: DAAD Funds Two New Projects: Strategic Partnerships with Chinese Universities and Communi-cation Technologies Network

Both projects ideally fit into the internationalization concept of KIT. Among others, this concept focuses on the establishment of international innovation networks, the internationalization of higher education, and the setup of joint infrastructures...

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