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A Path Toward More Powerful Tabletop Accelerators
Laser light needn’t be as precise as previously thought to drive new breed of miniature particle accelerators, say Berkeley Lab researchers.
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Microscopy Charges Ahead
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new technique called charge gradient microscopy. Charge gradient microscopy uses the tip of a conventional atomic force microscope to scrape and collect the surface screen charges.
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Flexible, Transparent Thin Film Transistors Raise Hopes for Flexible Screens
Argonne National Laboratory has reported the creation of the world’s thinnest flexible, see-through 2-D thin film transistors.
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A Glimpse into Nature’s Looking Glass—To Find the Genetic Code is Reassigned
Research was conducted under the DOE JGI’s continuing effort to explore the biological frontier known as “microbial dark matter.” These are the vast number of microbes that are difficult-to-impossible to grow and study in the laboratory but populate nearly all environments from the human gut to the hot vents at the bottom of the ocean.
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Getting More Electricity out of Solar Cells
New MIT model can guide design of solar cells that produce less waste heat, more useful current.
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Scientists Demonstrate Improved Catalyst Control, Energy Savings Could Result
Inspired by how enzymes work in nature’s biological processes, researchers have demonstrated a way to improve control of synthetic catalysts, according to a paper co-authored by a University of Alabama computational chemist that was published in a recent online issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
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Argonne Scientists Discover New Magnetic Phase in Iron-based Superconductors
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a previously unknown phase in a class of superconductors called iron arsenides. This sheds light on a debate over the interactions between atoms and electrons that are responsible for their unusual superconductivity.
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Stanford Researchers Discover Immune System's Rules of Engagement
Study finds surprising similarities in the way immune system defenders bind to disease-causing invaders.
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Why Eumelanin is Such a Good Absorber of Light
Researchers uncover secret of a ubiquitous pigment’s ability to absorb a broad spectrum of light.
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A New Way to Harness Waste Heat
Electrochemical approach has potential to efficiently turn low-grade heat to electricity.
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Confirmed: Stellar Behemoth Self-Destructs in a Type IIb Supernova
Berkeley Lab researchers help catch a Wolf-Rayet hours after it goes supernova.
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Liberating Devices From Their Power Cords
New device developed at Vanderbilt University is a supercapacitor that stores electricity by assembling electrically charged ions on the surface of a porous material, instead of storing it in chemical reactions the way batteries do.
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