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Iran Designs Magnetic Nano-Absorbents Cleaning Chemical Pollutants

Iranian researchers at Shaheed Beheshti University designed Nano-absorbent separating chemical pollutants by high percentage.

Sarah Karimi Behzad, a mineral chemistry student at the university and lead author of the study, said that the Nano-absorbent is separated from the environment in less than a second and can be reused.

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Where Did All the Stars Go?

Dark cloud obscures hundreds of background stars

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From the Lab to Your Digital Device, Quantum Dots Have Made Quantum Leaps

Berkeley Lab’s nanotechnology enlivens Nanosys’ displays, enhancing the color and saving energy.

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The TV on the right using Nanosys’ quantum dot technology shows a 50% wider range of colors than the standard white LED set on the left.

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Toward quantum chips: Packing single-photon detectors on an optical chip is a crucial step toward quantum-computational circuits

A team of researchers has built an array of light detectors sensitive enough to register the arrival of individual light particles, or photons, and mounted them on a silicon optical chip. Such arrays are crucial components of devices that use photons to perform quantum computations.

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One of the researchers' new photon detectors, deposited athwart a light channel — or "waveguide" (horizontal black band) — on a silicon optical chip.

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Iranian Researchers Prolong Life of Steel Armatures in Concrete Structures

Iranian researchers from University of Tehran used nanocomposite coatings to increase the strength and life of concrete structures.

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DARPA virtal lab allows researchers from Navy and Air Force to investigate vulnerabilities inserted intentionally or unintentionally throughout components’ life cycle

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Researchers are collaborating in powerful new ways to determine the reliability and integrity of microchips embedded in the some of the nation’s most critical military weapon and cyber systems.

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NASA Cargo Launches to Space Station aboard SpaceX Resupply Mission

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A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket launches from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 4:47 a.m. EST on Jan. 10, 2014. The Dragon is loaded with more than two tons of supplies and NASA science investigations for the International Space Station.

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Compact batteries enhanced by spontaneous silver matrix formations: Scientists use x-rays to map internal atomic transformations and advance promising lithium-based batteries

In a promising lithium-based battery, the formation of a highly conductive silver matrix transforms a material otherwise plagued by low conductivity. To optimize these multi-metallic batteries-and enhance the flow of electricity-scientists needed a way to see where, when, and how these silver, nanoscale "bridges" emerge.

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These are optical images of the non-discharged cathodes.

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Eight New Planets Found in "Goldilocks" Zone

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Quantum optical hard drive breakthrough

Scientists developing a prototype optical quantum hard drive have improved storage time by a factor of over 100. The team's record storage time of six hours is a major step towards a secure worldwide data encryption network based on quantum information.

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This image shows quantum information being written on to the nuclear spins of a europium ion.