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Ionic Liquid Boosts Efficiency of CO2 Reduction Catalyst
Promising approach for converting abundant gas to building blocks for liquid fuels and other useful chemicals.
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Surprisingly Strong Magnetic Fields Challenge Black Holes’ Pull
Analysis of radio waves from black holes shows long-neglected magnetic fields have an unexpected presence.
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MINOS Result Narrows Field for Sterile Neutrinos
Data collected at the long-running MINOS experiment stacks evidence against the existence of these theoretical particles.
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Self-assembling Nanomachines Start to Click
A nanocage builds itself from engineered components.
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Scientists Find Stronger 3-D Material that Behaves Like Graphene
Researchers from Oxford, SIMES and Berkeley Lab say cadmium arsenide could yield practical devices with the same extraordinary electronic properties as 2-D graphene.
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2D Transistors Promise a Faster Electronics Future
Faster electronic device architectures are in the offing with the unveiling of the world’s first fully two-dimensional field-effect transistor (FET) by researchers with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Neutrons and X-rays Reveal Structure of High-temperature Liquid Metal Oxides
Research on ceramics by scientists at Oak Ridge and Argonne national laboratories could lead to insights in everything from the formation of glasses to the evolution of planets.
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University of Pittsburgh Researchers First to Detect Exciton in Metal
Team gives a microscopic quantum mechanical description of how light excites electrons in metals.
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A new heart for the ATLAS detector
US scientists collaborated with an international team to install a new component in the core of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider.
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New UGA Research Engineers Microbes for the Direct Conversion of Biomass to Fuel
The promise of affordable transportation fuels from biomass-a sustainable, carbon neutral route to American energy independence-has been left perpetually on hold by the economics of the conversion process. New research from the University of Georgia has overcome this hurdle allowing the direct conversion of switchgrass to fuel.
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JCAP Stabilizes Common Semiconductors For Solar Fuels Generation
Caltech researchers devise a method to protect the materials in a solar-fuel generator.
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Scientists Pinpoint the Creeping Nanocrystals Behind Lithium-Ion Battery Degradation
Two breakthrough studies track the nanoscale structural changes that degrade battery performance during cycles of charge and discharge.
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