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Optical Quality Improvement of Electrical Circuits’ Electrode Zinc Oxide Nanowires

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Study shows how water dissolves stone, molecule by molecule: International team uses computers, experiments to better predict chemical dissolution

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The dissolution process of a crystalline structure in water is shown: two bonded SiO4 -- molecules dissolve (top left), a quartz crystal (...

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Laser light at useful wavelengths from semiconductor nanowires: Nanowire lasers could work with silicon chips, optical fibers, even living cells

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TUM researchers have demonstrated that semiconductor nanowires like the one shown here can act both as lasers, generating coherent pulses...

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Goddard Planetary Instruments Score a Hat Trick

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Three mass spectrometers built at Goddard were operating on the same day at the moon, on Mars and en...

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Goddard Planetary Instruments Score a Hat Trick

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Three mass spectrometers built at Goddard were operating on the same day at the moon, on Mars and en route...

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New Instrument Continues Gathering Sun's Effects on the Earth

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Total solar irradiance (shown in color) over the past three solar cycles since 1978 adjusted to a ground-...

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Supernova Blast Provides Clues to Age of Binary Star System

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NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon

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This colorful view from NASA's Cassini mission is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at...

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