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			<title>Solar cells just did the “impossible” with this 130% breakthrough</title>
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			<description>A new solar breakthrough may overcome a long-standing efficiency barrier. Researchers used a “spin-flip” metal complex to capture and multiply energy from sunlight through singlet fission. The result reached about 130% efficiency, meaning more energy carriers were produced than photons absorbed. This could lead to much more powerful solar panels in the future.</description>
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			<title>“Purifying” photons: Scientists found a way to clean light itself</title>
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			<description>A new discovery shows that messy, stray light can be used to clean up quantum systems instead of disrupting them. University of Iowa researchers found that unwanted photons produced by lasers can be canceled out by carefully tuning the light itself. The result is a much purer stream of single photons, a key requirement for quantum computing and secure communication. The work could help push photonic quantum technology closer to real-world use.</description>
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			<title>Scientists just teleported information using light</title>
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			<description>Quantum communication is edging closer to reality thanks to a breakthrough in teleporting information between photons from different quantum dots—one of the biggest challenges in building a quantum internet. By creating nearly identical semiconductor-based photon sources and using frequency converters to sync them, researchers successfully transferred quantum states across a fiber link, proving a key step toward long-distance, tamper-proof communication.</description>
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			<title>New quantum breakthrough could transform teleportation and computing</title>
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			<description>Scientists have finally unlocked a way to identify the elusive W state of quantum entanglement, solving a decades-old problem and opening paths to quantum teleportation and advanced quantum technologies.</description>
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			<title>Scientists just proved a fundamental quantum rule for the first time</title>
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			<description>Scientists have, for the first time, experimentally proven that angular momentum is conserved even when a single photon splits into two, pushing quantum physics to its most fundamental limits. Using ultra-precise equipment, the team captured this elusive process—comparable to finding a needle in a haystack—confirming a cornerstone law of nature at the photon level.</description>
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			<title>Einstein was wrong: MIT just settled a 100-year quantum debate</title>
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			<description>Physicists at MIT recreated the double-slit experiment using individual photons and atoms held in laser light, uncovering the true limits of light’s wave–particle duality. Their results proved Einstein’s proposal wrong and confirmed a core prediction of quantum mechanics.</description>
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			<title>The Squid Galaxy&#039;s neutrino game just leveled up</title>
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			<description>In space, energetic neutrinos are usually paired with energetic gamma rays. Galaxy NGC 1068, however, emits strong neutrinos and weak gamma rays, which presents a puzzle for scientists to solve. A new paper posits that helium nuclei collide with ultraviolet photons emitted by the galaxy&#039;s central region and fragment, releasing neutrons that subsequently decay into neutrinos without producing gamma rays. The finding offers insight into the extreme environment around the supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies like NGC 1068 and our own and enhances our understanding of the relationships between radiation and elementary particles that could lead to technological advances we haven&#039;t yet imagined.</description>
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			<title>&#039;Universe&#039;s awkward handshake&#039; -- simplifying information processing using photons a quantum breakthrough</title>
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			<description>Researchers have developed a technique that makes high-dimensional quantum information encoded in light more practical and reliable. The advancement could pave the way for more secure data transmission and next-generation quantum technologies.</description>
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			<title>Experimental quantum communications network</title>
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			<description>Researchers recently connected their campuses with an experimental quantum communications network using two optical fibers.</description>
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			<title>Smart surfaces: A powerless solution to multipath signal interference</title>
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			<description>Multipath interference disrupts wireless signals, causing issues like TV ghosting and fading. Now, researchers have developed a passive metasurface that overcomes traditional filtering limits. Using a time-varying interlocking mechanism with field-effect transistors, it transmits the first signal while blocking delayed ones from other angles -- without power or processing. This innovation enables low-cost, reliable wireless communication, which is ideal for IoT applications and environments prone to interference.</description>
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			<title>Nanophotonic platform boosts efficiency of nonlinear-optical quantum teleportation</title>
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			<description>Researchers have long recognized that quantum communication systems would transmit quantum information more faithfully and be impervious to certain forms of error if nonlinear optical processes were used. However, past efforts at incorporating such processes could not operate with the extremely low light levels required for quantum communication.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:29:01 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Transducer could enable superconducting quantum networks</title>
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			<description>Applied physicists have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive microwave quantum computers.</description>
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			<title>Researchers explore using soil for heat storage</title>
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			<description>When spring arrives and the heating season comes to an end, keeping warm becomes less of an issue. However, scientists remind us that it is not just a seasonal necessity -- heat is also a valuable energy resource that can be stored and used when needed most. Researchers have discovered an innovative solution beneath our feet: using soil as an efficient thermal energy storage system.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:20:31 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Device enables direct communication among multiple quantum processors</title>
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			<description>Researchers developed a scalable interconnect that facilitates all-to-all communication among many quantum processor modules by enabling each to send and receive quantum information on demand in a user-specified direction. They used the interconnect to demonstrate remote entanglement, a type of correlation that is key to creating a powerful, distributed network of quantum processors.</description>
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			<title>New discovery could &#039;revolutionize carbon fiber industry&#039;</title>
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			<description>A research team has developed a groundbreaking new method of producing carbon fiber while drastically reducing its energy footprint.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:51:31 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Multiplexing entanglement in a quantum network</title>
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			<description>Researchers use rare-earth ions to achieve the first-ever demonstration of entanglement multiplexing between individual memory qubits in a quantum network.</description>
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			<title>From photons to protons: Team makes breakthrough in high-energy particle detection</title>
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			<description>Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate particle detectors, and they have found the optimal nanowire size for high detection efficiency.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:41:56 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Quantum engineers &#039;squeeze&#039; laser frequency combs to make more sensitive gas sensors</title>
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			<description>Scientists use devices known as frequency comb lasers to search for methane in the air above oil and gas operations and to screen for signs of infection in human breath. A new study could help make these sensors even more precise.</description>
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			<title>Twisted Edison: Bright, elliptically polarized incandescent light</title>
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			<description>Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers have shown. The finding adds nuance to fundamental physics while offering a new avenue for robotic vision systems and other applications for light that traces out a helix in space.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:44:07 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>First demonstration of quantum teleportation over busy Internet cables</title>
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			<description>Quantum teleportation could provide near-instant communication over long distances. But, inside Internet cables, photons needed for teleportation are lost within the millions of light particles required for classical communications. A new study quantified light scattering to find exact areas to place photons to keep them safe from other particles. The approach successfully worked in experiments carrying regular Internet traffic.</description>
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			<title>Researchers discover simple fix to eliminate energy loss in fusion plasma heating</title>
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			<description>Researchers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory found a way to make plasma heating more efficient for fusion. By slightly angling a Faraday screen near the plasma antenna, they stopped unwanted “slow modes” that waste energy. The computer simulations showed that even a small five-degree tilt can make a big difference, dramatically boosting heating efficiency. This insight could help future fusion reactors generate more power with less waste.</description>
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			<title>Quantum-inspired design boosts efficiency of heat-to-electricity conversion</title>
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			<description>Researchers have found a new way to improve a key element of thermophotovoltaic systems, which convert heat into electricity via light. Engineers designed a thermal emitter that can deliver high efficiencies within practical design parameters.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:53:56 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Scientists find a new way of entangling light and sound</title>
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			<description>For a wide variety of emerging quantum technologies, such as secure quantum communications and quantum computing, quantum entanglement is a prerequisite. Scientists have now demonstrated a particularly efficient way in which photons can be entangled with acoustic phonons. The researchers were able to demonstrate that this entanglement is resilient to external noise, the usual pitfall of any quantum technology to date.</description>
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			<title>A trick of light: Researchers turn silicon into direct bandgap semiconductor</title>
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			<description>Researchers have come up with a way to turn silicon into a direct bandgap semiconductor, opening the door to the manufacture of ultrathin silicon solar cells.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:04:03 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Quantum simulator could help uncover materials for high-performance electronics</title>
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			<description>Researchers created a synthetic magnetic field using a superconducting quantum processor, which could enable them to precisely study complex phenomena in materials, like phase changes. This could shed light on properties of unique materials that may be used to create faster or more powerful electronics.</description>
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			<title>The evolution of green energy technology: Developing three-dimensional smart energy devices with radiant cooling and solar absorption</title>
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			<description>- DGIST, KAIST, and Korea University collaborated to develop a three-dimensional device with reversible heating/cooling based on the thermal radiation phenomenon -- Research published as a cover article in Advanced Materials</description>
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			<title>New AI models of plasma heating lead to important corrections in computer code used for fusion research</title>
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			<description>New artificial intelligence models for plasma heating can do more than was previously thought possible, not only increasing the prediction speed 10 million times while preserving accuracy but also correctly predicting plasma heating in cases where the original numerical code failed.</description>
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			<title>High costs slow widespread use of heat pumps, study shows</title>
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			<description>The high cost of installing heat pumps for home heating could slow down people widely adopting the technology and leave government targets missed, research suggests.</description>
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			<title>Thermal effects in spintronics systematically assessed for first time</title>
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			<description>Spintronics -- devices that use microscopic magnetism in conjunction with electric current -- could lead to computing technology as fast as conventional electronics but much more energy efficient. As such devices are developed and studied, an important unresolved question is how device operation is affected by heating.</description>
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			<description>Researchers demonstrated a new optical atomic clock that uses a single laser and doesn&#039;t require cryogenic temperatures. By greatly reducing the size and complexity of atomic clocks without sacrificing accuracy and stability, this advance could lead to high-performance atomic clocks that are compact and portable.</description>
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			<description>Existing global energy projections underestimate the impact of climate change on urban heating and cooling systems by roughly 50% by 2099 if greenhouse gas emissions remain high, researchers report. This disparity could profoundly affect critical sustainable energy planning for the future.</description>
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			<description>Converting biomass such as waste cooking oil into useful chemicals through catalysis can help create a more sustainable chemical industry. However, conventional techniques require enormous energy and generate harmful chemicals. Moreover, such techniques reduce the lifetime of catalysts. Now, researchers reveal a zeolite catalyst that can be efficiently heated up using microwaves.</description>
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			<description>Who are we? Why are we here? We are stardust, the result of chemistry occurring throughout vast clouds of interstellar gas and dust. To better understand how that chemistry could create prebiotic molecules, researchers investigated the role of low-energy electrons created as cosmic radiation traverses through ice particles. Their findings may also inform medical and environmental applications on our home planet.</description>
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			<title>Advancing modular quantum information processing</title>
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			<description>A team of physicists envisions a modular system for scaling quantum processors with a flexible way of linking qubits over long distances to enable them to work in concert to perform quantum operations. The ability to carry out such correlated or &#039;entangling&#039; operations between linked qubits is the basis of the enhanced power quantum computing holds compared with current computers.</description>
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			<description>Researchers have published a programmable framework that overcomes a key computational bottleneck of optics-based artificial intelligence systems. In a series of image classification experiments, they used scattered light from a low-power laser to perform accurate, scalable computations using a fraction of the energy of electronics.</description>
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			<title>Heating for fusion: Why toast plasma when you can microwave it!</title>
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			<description>Can plasma be sufficiently heated inside a tokamak using only microwaves? New research suggests it can! Eliminating the central ohmic heating coil normally used in tokamaks will free up much-needed space for a more compact, efficient spherical tokamak.</description>
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			<description>Researchers have developed a means to realize cold-atom integrated nanophotonic circuits.</description>
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			<description>Researchers uncover a rapid, efficient and environmentally friendly method for selective lithium recovery using microwave radiation and a readily biodegradable solvent.</description>
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			<description>A new generation of specialty optical fibers has been developed by physicists to cope with the challenges of data transfer expected to arise in the future age of quantum computing.</description>
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			<title>Fresh light on the path to net zero</title>
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			<description>Chemists have synthesized materials that can improve solar elements for indoor use. Such photovoltaic cells, which can also be integrated into various electronic devices, generate electricity even in low-light conditions.</description>
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			<description>Painting roofs white or covering them with a reflective coating would be more effective at cooling cities like London than vegetation-covered &#039;green roofs,&#039; street-level vegetation or solar panels, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.</description>
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			<description>Thousands of particles of light can merge into a type of &#039;super photon&#039; under suitable conditions. Physicists call such a state a photon Bose-Einstein condensate. Researchers have now shown that this exotic quantum state obeys a fundamental theorem of physics. This finding now allows one to measure properties of photon Bose-Einstein condensates which are usually difficult to access.</description>
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			<description>Converting home heating systems from natural gas furnaces to electric heat pumps is seen as a way to address climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.</description>
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			<description>Closing in on the theoretical maximum efficiency, devices for turning heat into electricity are edging closer to being practical for use on the grid, according to new research.</description>
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			<title>New discoveries about the nature of light could improve methods for heating fusion plasma</title>
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			<description>Scientists have made discoveries about light particles known as photons that could aid the quest for fusion energy.</description>
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			<title>Using artificial intelligence to speed up and improve the most computationally-intensive aspects of plasma physics in fusion</title>
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			<description>Researchers are using artificial intelligence to perfect the design of the vessels surrounding the super-hot plasma, optimize heating methods and maintain stable control of the reaction for increasingly long periods. A new article explains how a researcher team used machine learning to avoid magnetic perturbations, or disruptions, which destabilize fusion plasma.</description>
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			<description>A lead-vacancy (PbV) center in diamond has been developed as a quantum emitter for large-scale quantum networks by researchers. This innovative color center exhibits a sharp zero-phonon-line and emits photons with specific frequencies. The PbV color center stands out among other diamond color centers due to its ability to maintain optical properties at relatively high temperatures of 16 K. This makes it well-suited for transferring quantum information in large-scale quantum networks.</description>
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			<description>An international collaboration of researchers has achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum technology, with the successful demonstration of quantum interference among several single photons using a novel resource-efficient platform. The work represents a notable advancement in optical quantum computing that paves the way for more scalable quantum technologies.</description>
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			<description>Researchers have produced, stored, and retrieved quantum information for the first time, a critical step in quantum networking.</description>
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			<description>Researchers have fabricated a new four-terminal organic solar cell with a tandem configuration with a 16.94% power conversion efficiency (PCE). The new device is composed by a highly transparent front cell that incorporates a transparent ultrathin silver (Ag) electrode of only 7nm, which ensures its efficient operation.</description>
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			<description>There is room for just one small bottle in the world&#039;s first refrigerator that is cooled with artificial muscles made of nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy. But the mini-prototype is groundbreaking: it shows that elastocalorics is becoming a viable solution for practical applications. This climate-friendly cooling and heating technology is far more energy-efficient and sustainable than current methods.</description>
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			<description>Researchers have taken a big step towards securing information against hacking. They have succeeded in using quantum encryption to securely transfer information 100 kilometers via fiber optic cable -- roughly equivalent to the distance between Oxford and London.</description>
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			<description>Astronauts have been able to track their muscle health in spaceflight for the first time using a handheld device, revealing which muscles are most at risk of weakening in low gravity conditions. Researchers monitored the muscle health of twelve astronauts before, during and after a stay on the International Space Station.</description>
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			<description>Researchers recently reported on the science behind its special concrete, that can warm itself up when it snows, or as temperatures approach freezing.</description>
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			<description>Physicists are developing a method that could enable the stable exchange of information in quantum computers. In the leading role: photons that make quantum bits &#039;fly&#039;.</description>
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			<description>An interdisciplinary team of experts has found a way to use artificial intelligence to analyze a household&#039;s passive design characteristics and predict its energy expenses with more than 74 percent accuracy. By combining their findings with demographic data including poverty levels, the researchers have created a comprehensive model for predicting energy burden across 1,402 census tracts and nearly 300,000 households in Chicago.</description>
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			<description>Solar energy is one of the most promising, widely adopted renewable energy sources, but the solar cells that convert light into electricity remains a challenge. Scientists have turned to the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart to understand how strategically designing imperfections in the system could lead to more efficient energy conversion.</description>
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