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Opening a wide window on the nano-world of surface catalysis

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A surface catalyst with a built-in sensor: that's what chemist Hui Wang and co-workers built by bridging a size gap on the nano-scale....

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"Neapolitan" Exoplanets Come in Three Flavors

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Harsh Space Weather May Doom Potential Life on Red-Dwarf Planets

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Because You Can't Eat Just One: Star Will Swallow Two Planets

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'Quadrapeutics' works in preclinical study of hard-to-treat tumors: Animal tests show Rice-developed technology effective against aggressive cancer

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The first preclinical study of the anti-cancer technology "quadrapeutics" found it to be 17 times more efficient than conventional...

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Unexpected water explains surface chemistry of nanocrystals: Berkeley Lab scientists answer questions of how charged ligands balance on surface of colloidal nanoparticles

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This image shows the calculated atomic structure of a 5nm diameter nanocrystal passivated with oleate and hydroxyl ligands.

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Quantum mechanics matters: First real time movies of the light-to-current conversion in an organic solar cell

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Elliptical Galaxies: Chandra Helps Explain "Red and Dead Galaxies"

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A new study looks at why some giant elliptical galaxies have such low levels of star formation despite...

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