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Solar power heads in a new direction: thinner - Atom-thick photovoltaic sheets could pack hundreds of times more power per weight than conventional solar cells

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The MIT team found that an effective solar cell could be made from a stack of two one-molecule-thick materials: Graphene (a one-atom-thick...

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Efficient Production Process for Coveted Nanocrystals

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Ce(IV) dimers and trimers form in aqueous solution nanometer-sized cer dioxide crystals (CeO2). The size of the nanocrystals is in the...

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Three Planets in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star

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Dusty Surprise Around Giant Black Hole

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ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer has gathered the most detailed observations ever of the dust around the huge black hole...

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Ten Thousandth Near-Earth Object Unearthed in Space

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Asteroid 2013 MZ5 as seen by the University of Hawaii's PanSTARR-1 telescope. In this animated gif, the...

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Accelerating Proliferation of Human Bone-Marrow Stem Cells by Nanobioceramics

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Beyond Silicon: Transistors without Semiconductors

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Electrons flash across a series of gold quantum dots on boron nitride nanotubes. Michigan Tech scientists made the quantum-tunneling device...

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Hubble spots galaxies in close encounter

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