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One step to solar-cell efficiency: Rice University researchers’ chemical process may improve manufacturing

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Rice University scientists have reduced to one step the process to turn silicon wafers into the black silicon used in solar cells. The...

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Time to think big: a call for a giant space telescope

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An artist’s concept of the ATLAST telescope under construction in space. This...

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Changing Composition of Nanofibers Results in Treatment of Scars, Deep Wound

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New Los Alamos Approach May Be Key to Quantum Dot Solar Cells With Real Gains in Efficiency: Nanoengineering Boosts Carrier Multiplication in Quantum Dots

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Core/shell PbSe/CdSe quantum dots (a) and a carrier multiplication (CM) pathway (b) in these nano structures. (a) Transmission electron...

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Nanion Technologies and Axion Biosystems Announce Strategic Distribution Partnership in Europe and China

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Mapping Out our Magnificent Brain

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DARPA’s SUBNETS program seeks new neurotechnology for analyzing neuronal activity across sub-networks of...

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NASA's Hubble to Begin Search Beyond Pluto for a New Horizons Mission Target

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This is an artist's rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt object — a...

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New quantum mechanism to trigger the emission of tunable light at terahertz frequencies

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This is an optoelectronic device formed of multiple quantum wells, whose design is optimised to maximise the dipole and thus its efficiency...

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