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Photography
Photography is the process of making pictures by means of the action of light.
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Jan. 8, 2025 — New research has identified the probable locations for critical metals needed to support a green ...
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Jan. 10, 2025 — Radiation testing suggests that solar cells made from carbon-based, or organic, materials could outperform conventional silicon and gallium arsenide for generating electricity in the final frontier, ...
Jan. 10, 2025 — Alloying, the art of blending metals with other elements, has long been a cornerstone of materials science and metallurgy, creating materials with ...
Jan. 9, 2025 — A team developed a method that makes it easy to measure the wrinkles in thin membranes used on large spacecraft using just a single ...
Jan. 9, 2025 — Scientists have created a catalyst for hydrogen generation from ammonia that becomes more active with time, and by counting atoms revealed changes that boost the catalyst's ...
Jan. 10, 2025 — A research team found a key indicator for the chemical activity of acoustic microbubbles and a correlation between the temperature of a liquid and that of the microbubbles ...
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