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NIST Develops Tiny Low-Energy Device to Reroute Light Efficiently

The switch's record-breaking performance is a major new step toward building a computer that uses light instead of electricity to process information. Relying…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Laser Unlocks Potential of Terahertz Frequency Range

The terahertz frequency range – which sits in the middle of the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and infrared light — offers the potential for…

Power and Electrical Engineering

NASA Deploys Ben-Gurion University Solar Power Generator to ISS

A new solar power generator prototype developed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and research teams in the United States, will be deployed on the…

Life & Chemistry

Real-Time Observation of Molecular Chirality Changes

The fact that they behave to each other like image and mirror image is called chirality (from the Greek cheiro for hand). In nature, however, often only one…

Environmental Conservation

Typhoons and Marine Eutrophication: Key to Organic Nitrogen?

In recent years, with the reduction of anthropogenic inorganic nitrogen emissions, interest in organic nitrogen (ON) has increased because it represents a…

Health & Medicine

Essential Genes: Advancing Precision Medicine in Cancer Care

Why are the essential genes important in cancer?

Event News

AgriVoltaics2020: Exploring Agrophotovoltaics Innovations

The AgriVoltaics2020 will address different aspects of the technology, from research to applications. Specialists in the areas of plant science and agronomy,…

Life & Chemistry

Tracking Air Pollution: Space-Based Detection of Nitrogen Oxides

Nitrogen oxides (NO and NO2) are major contributors to air pollution. In order to accurately predict air quality and develop strategies to reduce pollution,…

Event News

Laser Symposium Unveils Electromobility Trends in Aachen

2020 will be a defining year for electromobility in the global vehicle industry: that’s when the EU’s binding fleet-wide CO2 emission targets come into effect.

Machine Engineering

Fine-Tuning Additive Manufacturing for Complex Components

Additive manufacturing systems can generate highly complex components, which could not be produced with conventional machine tools or only with great effort….

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Synthesis Boosts Efficiency of Silicon Solar Cells

Today, the best silicon solar cells in the world have an efficiency of 24 percent. The theoretical limit is around 29 percent. “This is because silicon…

Studies and Analyses

Autonomous Agriculture by 2045: Transforming Global Farming

The development and introduction of machines ranging from highly automated to driverless will have a strong impact on global agriculture. This inevitably…

Physics & Astronomy

One-Way Light: Innovations in Optical Technology Explained

A light beam is usually divided by being directed onto a partially reflecting mirror: Part of the light is then reflected back to create the mirror image. The…

Life & Chemistry

Chemists Harness Light to Create Active Biologically Compounds

Some of the most biologically active molecules, including synthetic drugs, contain a central, nitrogen-containing chemical structure called an isoquinuclidine….

Materials Sciences

Ultrahard Polymers Inspired by Theoretical Tubulanes

A lightweight material full of holes is nearly as hard as diamond. The mere dents left by speeding bullets prove it.

Health & Medicine

Can 'smart toilets' be the next health data wellspring?

That's the conclusion of a team of metabolism scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research, who are working to…

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