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Sunlight converted to electricity with over 40 percent efficiency outdoors...
UNSW Australia's solar researchers have converted over 40% of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported.The record efficiency was achieved in outdoor...
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Bitter fight over the patents for CRISPR, a breakthrough in DNA editing
Biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for CRISPR-Cas9, a “powerful and general technology” for editing genomes that’s been hailed as a biotechnology...
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Addressable quantum dot qubit with fault-tolerant control-fidelity
Exciting progress towards spin-based quantum computing has recently been made with qubits realized using nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond and phosphorus atoms in silicon. For example, long coherence...
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Molecular electronics: A DNA that conducts
Experiments with conducting atomic force microscopy provide a clear demonstration of long-range charge transport in G-quadruplex DNA molecules, and allow a hopping transport model to be developed that...
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Storing quantum information for 30 seconds in a nanoelectronic device
The spin of an electron or a nucleus in a semiconductor naturally implements the unit of quantum information—the qubit. In addition, because semiconductors are currently used in the electronics...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 237
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 237 is up at ANS Nuclear CafeForbes - Net Energy Metering -- Are We Capitalists Or What? Net metering, or net energy metering (NEM), is a billing system that credits...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 238
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 238 is up at Neutron BytesBrave New Climate - If the world was to almost triple nuclear power capacity from 337 GW today to 983 GW by 2030, as estimated by WNA assuming...
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Carnival of Space 383
Carnival of Space 383 is up at Urban AstronomerUniverse Today - Meteorite May Contain Proof of Life on Mars, Researchers SayAccording to a recent paper submitted by an international team of scientists,...
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Powercube details for outdoor 40% efficient solar to electricity conversion...
A solar research team at the University of New South Wales has converted over 40 per cent of sunlight into electricity, with an innovative take on Australian-designed solar tower technology.This is a...
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Ultra wealthy have twice as much private equity than public stocks
Almost US$13 trillion of the world’s UHNW (ultra high new worth, those with over $30 million) wealth is held in private company holdings, nearly twice the amount held in public company stakes. The...
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Yale working with Organovo to develop 3D printed organs with bioprinted blood...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery and Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science have joined forces with a leading three-dimensional biology company [Organova] to...
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Oil hits 5 year low and Morgan Stanley now looking at average of $53 per...
Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate slumped to five-year lows amid concern that hedge funds and other money managers bet too much on rising prices. Brent and WTI tumbled 18 percent in November as...
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Those worried about China passing the USA can have a freakout before 2030...
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) does not believe that China will match the US on per capita income on a purchasing power parity basis for another 74 years. The AEI believes the US is still...
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Russia may increase nuclear reactor construction in India to 25 units instead...
Russia has agreed to India's request to expand the number of nuclear energy units it is supposed to construct in the country, 20 to 24 from the initial 14 to 16 units. India made the request based on...
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SpaceX Attempting Reusable rocket landing on a Floating Ocean Platform Next Week
During the Dec. 16 launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which will send SpaceX's robotic Dragon capsule toward the orbiting lab, Spacex will try to bring the first stage of its...
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State of Artificial Intelligence and Nanotechnology
There are some readers who ask a question along the lines of "Why aren't there more articles about Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology and Biotechnology ?There were several articles over the last...
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China will start operating 32 new high speed rail routes tomorrow
China is launching 32 high-speed train routes on December 10 (tomorrow). The network extension includes a link between the biggest city Shanghai and the manufacturing hub of Guangzhou right next to...
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Metals with nanoholes can harvest solar energy with nanoplasmons
Caltech researchers have found a way to absorb and make use of these infrared waves with a structure composed not of silicon, but entirely of metal.The new technique they've developed is based on a...
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Nanotechnology Against Malaria Parasites
Malaria parasites invade human red blood cells, they then disrupt them and infect others. Researchers at the University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute have now developed...
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Bank of America forecasts $50 oil and natural gas glut
Francisco Blanch, the bank’s commodity chief, said Opec is “effectively dissolved” after it failed to stabilize prices at its last meeting. “The consequences are profound and long-lasting,“ he said.The...
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