New research by Berkeley engineers may soon make it more practical to use battery-powered vehicles and devices in extreme temperatures, such as in icy-cold winters in Minnesota or stifling-hot summers in Death Valley. Those ...
Materials Science
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Removing the troublesome impurities of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and carbon dioxide (CO2) from natural gas could become simpler and more effective using a metal-organic framework (MOF) developed at KAUST.
Materials Science
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Researchers from Lund University in Sweden, among others, have developed a more effective technique in the search for clues about dark matter in the universe. They can now analyse much larger amounts of the data generated ...
General Physics
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A Chinese research team has developed a "milder" way to synthesize ammonia by requiring lower temperature and pressure than the current method. The process offers great promise for saving energy and reducing carbon dioxide ...
Materials Science
Oct 30, 2018
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Ambient air quality monitoring data comprise the most important source for public awareness of air quality, and are widely used in many research fields, such as improving air quality forecasting and the analysis of haze episodes. ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2018
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The introduction of foreign genes into cells has a range of benefits, such as compensating for dysfunctional genes in cells and producing large amounts of specific gene products that can be harvested and used clinically. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 30, 2018
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Two outback radio telescopes synchronised to observe the same point of sky have discovered more about one of the universe 's most mysterious events in new research published today.
Astronomy
Oct 30, 2018
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Experts from the University of Seville and the Laboratory of Astronomy, Geodesy and Cartography at the University of Cadiz have published a study reporting the behaviour of the geodynamic area of the island of Tenerife. Although ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2018
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Thanks to a laser technique that ejects ultra-tiny droplets of metal, it is now possible to print 3-D metal structures—not only simple 'piles' of droplets, but complex overhanging structures, as well, like a helix measuring ...
Materials Science
Oct 30, 2018
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China on Tuesday defended its controversial decision to ease a 25-year ban on trading tiger bones and rhinoceros horns after conservationists warned that the government had effectively signed a "death warrant" for the endangered ...
Ecology
Oct 30, 2018
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