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  Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 2D materials, which consist of a few layers of atoms, may well be the future of nanotechnology. They offer potential new applications and could be used in small, higher-performance and more energy-efficient devices. 2D materials were first discovered almost 15 years ago, but only a few dozen of them have been synthesized so far. Now, thanks to an approach developed by researchers from EPFL's Theory and Simulation of Materials Laboratory (THEOS) and from NCCR-MARVEL for Computational Design and Dis ... read more |
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UCLA researchers develop a new class of two-dimensional materialsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 A research team led by UCLA scientists and engineers has developed a method to make new kinds of artificial "superlattices" - materials comprised of alternating layers of ultra-thin "two-dimensional ... more 
Nanostructures made of previously impossible materialVienna, Austria (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 When you bake a cake, you can combine the ingredients in almost any proportions, and they will still always be able to mix together. This is a little more complicated in materials chemistry. O ... more 
Mining hardware helps scientists gain insight into silicon nanoparticlesSaint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 Researchers first developed a three-dimensional dynamic model of an interaction between light and nanoparticles. They used a supercomputer with graphic accelerators for calculations. Results showed ... more 
Big steps toward control of production of tiny building blocksPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 13, 2018 Nanoparticles, superstrong and flexible structures such as carbon nanotubes that are measured in billionths of a meter - a diameter thousands of times thinner than a human hair - are used in everyth ... more |
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USTC realizes strong indirect coupling in distant nanomechanical resonatorsBeijing, China (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 New progress in graphene-based nanomechanical resonator systems has been achieved in Key Laboratory of Quantum Information and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics ... more 
Scalable and cost-effective manufacturing of thin film devicesNew Brunswick, NJ (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 Engineers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Oregon State University are developing a new method of processing nanomaterials that could lead to faster and cheaper manufacturing of flexible thin ... more 
Ultra-efficient removal of carbon monoxide using gold nanoparticles on a molecular supportTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to mount gold nanoparticles on a molecular support known as a polyoxometalate (POM). They successfully applied this to realize nea ... more 
Fast-spinning spheres show nanoscale systems' secretsHouston TX (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 Spin a merry-go-round fast enough and the riders fly off in all directions. But the spinning particles in a Rice University lab do just the opposite. Experiments in the Rice lab of chemical engineer ... more 
Scientists observe nanowires as they growHamburg, Germany (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 At DESY's X-ray source PETRA III, scientists have followed the growth of tiny wires of gallium arsenide live. Their observations reveal exact details of the growth process responsible for the evolvi ... more |
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On the rebound as nanoparticles self-healLemont IL (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 Our bodies have a remarkable ability to heal from broken ankles or dislocated wrists. Now, a new study has shown that some nanoparticles can also "self-heal" after experiencing intense strain, once ... more  |
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Let the good tubes rollRichland WA (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 Materials scientists, led by a team at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, designed a tiny tube that rolls up and zips closed. These hollow nanotubes are thousand ... more 
Touchy nanotubes work better when cleanHouston TX (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 Carbon nanotubes bound for electronics need to be as clean as possible to maximize their utility in next-generation nanoscale devices, and scientists at Rice and Swansea universities have found a wa ... more 
Piecework at the nano assembly lineMunich, Germany (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a novel electric propulsion technology for nanorobots. It allows molecular machines to move a hundred thousand times faster than ... more 
Optical nanoscope allows imaging of quantum dotsBasel, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 03, 2018 Physicists have developed a technique based on optical microscopy that can be used to create images of atoms on the nanoscale. In particular, the new method allows the imaging of quantum dots in a s ... more 
Ultra-thin optical fibers offer new way to 3-D print microstructuresWashington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 For the first time, researchers have shown that an optical fiber as thin as a human hair can be used to create microscopic structures with laser-based 3D printing. The innovative approach might one ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 30, 2018 
The last blue moon until 2020 will peak in the sky at 8:37 a.m. EDT Saturday.
For the second time this year, a blue moon will appear. The first was in January.
Linda Lam, a Weather.com meteorologist, said people living in the South, Southwest and West Coast of the United States have the best chance of seeing the blue moon, but a cold front may block the view along much of the Eas ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 27, 2018 
An uncontrolled Chinese space station weighing at least seven tonnes is set to break up as it hurtles to Earth on or around April 1, the European Space Agency has forecast.
"It will mostly burn up due to the extreme heat generated by its high-speed passage through the atmosphere," it said in a statement.
Some debris from the Tiangong-1 - or "Heavenly Palace" - spacelab will likely fal ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 30, 2018 
Chinese people and foreign firms are girding for a weekend deadline that will curb the use of unlicensed software to circumvent internet controls, as the government plugs holes in its "Great Firewall".
A virtual private network (VPN) can tunnel through the country's sophisticated barrier of online filters to access the global internet.
VPNs give users a way to see blocked websites such a ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Mar 30, 2018
The last blue moon until 2020 will peak in the sky at 8:37 a.m. EDT Saturday.
For the second time this year, a blue moon will appear. The first was in January.
Linda Lam, a Weather.com meteorologist, said people living in the South, Southwest and West Coast of the United States have the best chance of seeing the blue moon, but a cold front may block the view along much of the Eas ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
2D materials, which consist of a few layers of atoms, may well be the future of nanotechnology. They offer potential new applications and could be used in small, higher-performance and more energy-efficient devices. 2D materials were first discovered almost 15 years ago, but only a few dozen of them have been synthesized so far.
Now, thanks to an approach developed by researchers from EPFL ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 05, 2018 
China Wednesday received the first package of data from the three high-resolution Gaofen-1 satellites launched on March 31, according to the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The package of data with a total size of 166.31 gigabytes was received by the remote sensing satellite ground station in Miyun on the outskirts of Beijing.
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Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018
2D materials, which consist of a few layers of atoms, may well be the future of nanotechnology. They offer potential new applications and could be used in small, higher-performance and more energy-efficient devices. 2D materials were first discovered almost 15 years ago, but only a few dozen of them have been synthesized so far.
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Apr 05, 2018  Man or woman, happy or sad. Sometimes a glance is enough to say it. Yet, the visual process that allows us to recognize the gender or emotional state of a person is very sophisticated. Until recently, only primates were deemed able to perform such complex operations as object recognition.
A new study from the International School for Advanced Studies - SISSA, published in the journal Curre ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) March 31, 2018 
An Israeli drone has crashed in southern Lebanon due to a technical malfunction, the military said on Saturday, after Hezbollah media labelled it a "spy" device.
The Israeli military said that the drone crash in an open area on Friday night posed "no risk of leaked information." It provided no further details.
Hezbollah television station Al-Manar reported that the "spy drone" fell betwe ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 30, 2018 
Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables crisscross the globe and package everything from financial data to cat videos into light. But when the signal arrives at your local data center, it runs into a silicon bottleneck. Instead of light, computers run on electrons moving through silicon-based chips - which, despite huge advances, are still less efficient than photonics.
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 Nottingham UK (The Conversation) Apr 03, 2018 
From surviving take off to having to rely on oxygen tanks to breathe in orbit, space travel is incredibly risky. But a huge hazard that we sometimes overlook is high energy radiation from sources both inside and outside the solar system.
A new study, published in the journal Space Weather, has shown that radiation received from outside our solar system has been increasing steadily for the ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 3, 2018  China's culture watchdog has slapped fines on websites that posted parodies of "Communist classics and heroes", as the authorities further restrict what people can say - or even laugh at - online.
Major video sites iQiyi and Sina were handed undisclosed fines for "distorting or mocking" classic works, the culture ministry said, less than two weeks after new rules were issued to ban online ... more |
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 Liverpool UK (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 
Gravitational waves may be forged in the heart of the galaxy, says a new study led by PhD student Joseph Fernandez at Liverpool John Moores University. He sets out the work in a presentation on 3rd April at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool.
Gravitational waves (GWs) are small ripples in space-time that spread throughout the universe.
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 23, 2018 
When a gravitational wave reaches Earth, every second counts. The data processing speed will have a crucial impact on how much astronomers can learn from these space-time ripples, says computer scientist Cao Junwei.
"In an era of multi-messenger astronomy, we have to shorten the time as much as possible so as to trigger the alert quickly enough for follow-up observations," says Cao, who le ... more |
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 Sheffield UK (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 
Scientists from the University of Sheffield have solved the structure of a photosynthetic protein to reveal how it converts near-infrared light into an electrical charge.
The new study gives a pioneering insight into the efficiency and limits of the life-giving process, photosynthesis.
Plants and algae use chlorophyll to absorb energy from the Sun to power photosynthesis at wavelengt ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2018 
Relativity has reported the close of its $35 million Series B financing, led by Playground Global with full participation from existing Series A investors Social Capital, Y Combinator Continuity and Mark Cuban. The funding will be used to grow the company's scalable, automated process for manufacturing and launching entire rockets from conception to production.
The company has proven itsel ... more |
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