Solar panels at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are ubiquitous to the point of practically being invisible, but new rows of photovoltaic (PV) modules installed on the southern edge of campus ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 29, 2016
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A combined theoretical and experimental approach has allowed researchers to predict and verify the full structure of a monolayer-coated molecular metal nanoparticle. The methodology was tested on silver-thiolate nanoparticles, ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 29, 2016
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NASA's International Space Station Rapid Scatterometer (ISS-RapidScat) Earth science instrument has ended operations following a successful two-year mission aboard the space station. The mission launched Sept. 21, 2014, and ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2016
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Throw a baseball, and you might say it's all in the wrist.
Condensed Matter
Nov 29, 2016
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For James Steele, moving from the small fermenters where microbes make cheese, wine and beer to the multimillion-gallon tanks where corn is converted to ethanol was a natural progression.
Biotechnology
Nov 29, 2016
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German carmakers BMW, Daimler, Porsche and Audi and US competitor Ford said on Tuesday they would cooperate on a Europe-wide network of electric charging stations.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 29, 2016
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Ukraine on Tuesday unveiled the world's largest moveable metal structure over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's doomed fourth reactor to ensure the safety of Europeans for future generations.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 29, 2016
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The ice bucket that sparked a viral social-media campaign has a new home at the Smithsonian.
Other
Nov 29, 2016
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Every year 340,000 tonnes of usable whitefish by-product are discarded into the sea. But the fisheries industry has now identified ways of halting this practice.
Ecology
Nov 29, 2016
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Scientists from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen discovered that Neanderthals modified their survival strategies even without external influences, such as environmental ...
Archaeology
Nov 29, 2016
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