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Tiny Structure Gives Big Boost to Solar Power
December 6, 2012 — Researchers have found a simple and economic way to nearly triple the efficiency of organic solar cells, the cheap and flexible plastic devices that many scientists believe could be the future of ... > full story -
Seeing in Color at the Nanoscale: Scientists Develop a New Nanotech Tool to Probe Solar-Energy Conversion
December 6, 2012 — If nanoscience were television, we'd be in the 1950s. Although scientists can make and manipulate nanoscale objects with increasingly awesome control, they are limited to black-and-white imagery for ... > full story -
At High Altitude, Carbs Are the Fuel of Choice
December 6, 2012 — Mice living in the high-altitude, oxygen-starved environment of the Andean mountains survive those harsh conditions by fueling their muscles with carbohydrates. The findings provide the first ... > full story -
Sungrazing Comets as Solar Probes
December 6, 2012 — To observe how winds move high in Earth's atmosphere, scientists sometimes release clouds of barium as tracers to track how the material corkscrews, blows around, and changes composition in response ... > full story -
Flexible Silicon Solar-Cell Fabrics May Soon Become Possible
December 6, 2012 — For the first time, a silicon-based optical fiber with solar-cell capabilities has been developed that is capable of being scaled up to many meters in length. The research opens the door to the ... > full story -
Biologists Unlocking the Secrets of Plant Defenses, One Piece at a Time
December 5, 2012 — Botanists have unraveled an important step in the way the plant hormone jasmonate works. Jasmonate signaling has been a target of intense research because of its important role in maintaining the ... > full story -
Synthetic Fuel Could Eliminate U.S. Need for Crude Oil, Researchers Say
December 5, 2012 — The United States could eliminate the need for crude oil by using a combination of coal, natural gas and non-food crops to make synthetic fuel, a team of researchers has found. Besides economic and ... > full story -
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Proliferation Warnings on Nuclear 'Wonder-Fuel', Thorium
December 5, 2012 — Thorium is being touted as an ideal fuel for a new generation of nuclear power plants, but new research suggests it may not be as benign as ... > full story -
Next Scientific Fashion Could Be Designer Nanocrystals
December 5, 2012 — Three chemistry professors hope that their separate research trajectories will converge to create a new way of assembling what they call “designer atoms” into materials with a broad array ... > full story -
Wind Speeds in Southern New England Declining Inland, Remaining Steady on Coast: Climate Change, Urbanization Among Possible Causes
December 5, 2012 — Oceanographers have analyzed long-term data from several anemometers in southern New England and found that average wind speeds have declined by about 15 percent at inland sites while speeds have ... > full story
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