New DNA sequencing technologies have identified the historical remains of George Washington's grandnephews, Samuel Walter Washington and George Steptoe Washington Jr., and their mother, Lucy Payne Washington, from unmarked, ...
Archaeology
Mar 28, 2024
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Technicians at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have completed a major portion of a weld confidence article for the advanced upper stage of NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The hardware was rotated ...
Space Exploration
Nov 6, 2023
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The world's best tandem solar cells consisting of a silicon bottom cell and a perovskite top cell can today convert about a third of the incident solar radiation into electrical energy. These are record values, especially ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 10, 2023
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Police investigating the murders of four University of Idaho students have said they used DNA to link evidence found at the crime scene to their suspect, 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger.
Other
Jan 9, 2023
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The animation shows the full launch sequence for the first Meteosat Third Generation Imager (MTG-I1) satellite. MTG-I1 launches on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2022
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If you happen to see termites engaging in courtship rituals, you'd be hard-pressed to spot the difference between opposite-sex and same-sex couples. That's because one of the termites in a same-sex couple changes its behavior ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 9, 2022
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Tandem solar cells made of perovskite and silicon enable significantly higher efficiencies than silicon solar cells alone. Tandem cells from HZB have already achieved several world records. Most recently, in November 2021, ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 24, 2022
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DNA profiling is frequently in the news. Public interest is sparked when DNA is used to identify a suspect or human remains, or resolves a cold case that seems all but forgotten.
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 12, 2022
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A research group led by Prof. Xiao Jianping and Assoc. Prof. Jiao Feng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. Qu Zhenping from Dalian University ...
Materials Science
May 13, 2022
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A team of researchers from the Netherlands, China, Belgium, Japan and the U.S. has developed a double-shelled hollow sphere that serves as a tandem catalyst. In their paper published in the journal Nature Materials, the group ...
