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In the quest to design more efficient solar cells and light-emitting diodes (LEDs), a team of engineers has analyzed different types of defects...
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Studying the crystalline structures of organic materials has enabled significant advances in both technology and our scientific understanding of the material world. Recently,...
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A new type of light-emitting diode lightbulb could one day light homes and reduce power bills, according to Penn State researchers who suggest...
Tech: Novel hand-held tool detects, maps and monitors destructive pimple-like protrusions in precious works...
Even Georgia O'Keeffe noticed the pin-sized blisters bubbling on the surface of her paintings. For decades, conservationists and scholars assumed these tiny protrusions...
Tech: Running an LED in reverse could cool future computers — (Report)
In a finding that runs counter to a common assumption in physics, researchers at the University of Michigan ran a light emitting diode...
Tech: Chemical data mining boosts search for new organic semiconductors — (Report)
Producing traditional solar cells made of silicon is very energy intensive. On top of that, they are rigid and brittle. Organic semiconductor materials,...
Tech: With a tweak of only 0.3 millimeters, a material designed to absorb all...
Researchers at Duke University have discovered that a perfect absorber of electromagnetic waves they described in a 2017 paper can easily be tweaked...
Tech: Developable mechanisms can reside inside the surface of a structure — (Report)
It took just over 10 years, but real science has finally caught up to the science fiction of Iron Man's transforming exoskeleton suit.
In...
Tech: Building bottom-up chiral polymers with unique functions — (Report)
As below, so above. That seems to be an operating principle for molecules that start with a basic chirality -- or "handed-ness" --...
Tech: Gravitational waves will settle cosmic conundrum — (Report)
Measurements of gravitational waves from approximately 50 binary neutron stars over the next decade will definitively resolve an intense debate about how quickly...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
