An amorphous-seed mediated strategy has been developed in the Center for Nanoscale Materials Nanophotonics Group at the Argonne National Laboratory for creating bifunctional nanoparticles composed of silver and iron oxide ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 19, 2011
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Teaching students how to bring courage into their day-to-day school life can improve their learning, performance, and engagement at school.
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2011
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Light traveling in an optical fiber loses power over distance. A number of factors are responsible for this power loss, but one that is particularly important at high data rates is the loss that occurs due to changes in light ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 19, 2011
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One year after the notorious BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and two decades after the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska the scientific lesson is clear – microbes ...
Environment
Aug 19, 2011
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Preventing the recombination of free charges produced when light strikes a solar cell is one of the main goal of engineers attempting to extract the maximum energy conversion efficiency from their devices. One way to achieve ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 19, 2011
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The backbone of our energy infrastructure is carbon-based fuel. In the form of oil, coal and natural gas, carbon compounds run our cars, heat our homes and cook our food. For reasons of energy security and limiting carbon ...
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 19, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are helping develop the next generation of the Internet -- a more mobile version -- and the campus's Office of Information Technology is using this new technology ...
Telecom
Aug 19, 2011
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Plato lent his name to Platonic love but a new book reveals that the ancient Greek philosopher never advocated love without sex.
Other
Aug 19, 2011
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Conventional wisdom has long held that Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, which advocated racial self-help and the unity of the African diaspora, grew out of the heady political and cultural environment ...
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Sylhet Traps lava flows of the Shillong Plateau in northeastern India lie some 340 miles to the east of the Rajmahal Traps at the bend of the Ganges River as it flows south to the Bay of Bengal. Almost ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2011
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