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Rings
turn out hydrogen
Hydrogen promises to be a clean fuel, if scientists
can find clean ways of generating it. One of the most
promising methods is using sunlight to split water into
oxygen and hydrogen. Although it may sound simple, making
the process practical is a challenge...
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Nanotubes
hold more electricity
Capacitors are capable of delivering large bursts
of electricity but hold much less energy than batteries.
Carbon nanotubes could change that, bringing about energy
storing devices that combine the best of both worlds...
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Nanotubes
boost solar cells
We
follow the herd, culturally
Multilevel
optical disk scheme
Motion
sensor on a chip |
FEATURES
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View
from the High Ground: Cornell's Jon Kleinberg
Six degrees of separation, buying gasoline
by the molecule, the science of popularity, all just getting
along online, intellectual prosthetics, Big Science, making
up questions, and telling stories.
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How
It Works: Quantum computing: qubits
Photons, electrons and atoms, oh my! These particles are
the raw materials for qubits, the basic building blocks
of quantum computers. |
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