Science

Seasonal Arctic summer ice extent still hard to forecast, study says

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An image of an area of the Arctic sea ice pack well north of Alaska, captured by the MODIS...

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Nestor: unravelling the universe’s mysteries from the bottom of the sea

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In Pylos an underwater telescope is being developed to help track neutrinos.

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Revolutionary solar cells double as lasers

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This is an image of the laboratory in which the research was conducted.

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Harper Government Announces Support for U of S Nanoscience Research: Uses for New Nanostructured Coatings Range from Biomedical to Oil Sand Sectors

The $183,946 investment from Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD) will help Canada Research Chair in Nanoengineering Coating Technologies and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Qiaoqin Yang, and her team purchase specially-made equipment...

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High-quality nanometric bilayers prepared by aqueous solutions

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Quality comparison of the 15 nanometres layers obtained by PAD (chemical deposition) or PLD (pulsed laser deposition).

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cientists Track 3D Nanoscale Changes in Rechargeable Battery Material During Operation: First 3D nanoscale observations of microstructural degradation during charge-discharge cycles could point to new ways to engineer battery electrode materials for bette

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These images show how the surface morphology and internal microstructure of an individual tin particle changes from the fresh state through...

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The Search for Seeds of Black Holes

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The galaxy NGC 4395 is shown here in infrared light, captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

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First Ring System Around Asteroid

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