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Scientists Replace Nanoparticles with Nanostructures to Produce Solar Cells with Higher Efficiency

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ORNL superconducting wire yields unprecedented performance

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This figure shows the critical current, Ic, and engineering critical current density, JE, in a superconducting wire as a function of...

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Detecting early-stage malarial infection: New prototype device recognizes electrical properties of infected cells as signatures of disease

The scientists, from the laboratories of MIT's Anantha Chandrakasan and Subra Suresh — who is now president of Carnegie Mellon University — have built an experimental microfluidic device that takes a drop of blood and streams it across an electrode...

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Cosmology in the lab using laser-cooled ions: Taking a look back at the beginning of our universe: QUEST researchers at PTB generate and investigate symmetry breaking in ion Coulomb crystals

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The picture shows ytterbium ions in an ion Coulomb crystal, taken with an EMCCD camera (electron multiplying CCD camera). The ionized atoms...

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Researchers Optically Levitate a Glowing, Nanoscale Diamond

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The researchers show photoluminescence from an optically levitated nano diamond.

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What lies beneath

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A slice through the southern...

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Raman pixel by pixel

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Material in dissolvable sutures could treat brain infections, reducing hospital stays

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The challenge of delivering to the brain a continuous regimen of antibiotics in case of infection could be met with plastic nanofibers that...

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