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NASA Unveiled Its Most Powerful Rocket

13.12.2019 | Futurism | www.futurism.com

After many years of delay, NASA has finally shown off its Space Launch System (SLS), which it plans to use to ferry American astronauts to the Moon as soon as 2024. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine…

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Samsung researchers: More efficient quantum dots without heavy metals

02.12.2019 | Phys.org | www.phys.org

A team at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology has announced that they have improved quantum dot (QD) technology for use in large displays by developing QDs that are both more efficient and have…

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Samsung researchers: More efficient quantum dots without heavy metals

New way to remove carbon dioxide from air

25.10.2019 | MIT | www.mit.edu

A new way of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of air could provide a significant tool in the battle against climate change. The new system can work on the gas at virtually any concentration…

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New way to remove carbon dioxide from air

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019

11.10.2019 | The Nobel Prize | www.nobelprize.org

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 rewards the development of the lithium-ion battery. This lightweight, rechargeable and powerful battery is now used in everything from mobile phones to laptops and…

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A battery with a twist

25.09.2019 | ETH Zurich | ethz.ch/en.html

Today’s electronics industry is increasingly focusing on computers or smartphones with screens that can be folded or rolled. Smart clothing items make use of wearable micro-devices or sensors to…

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FarmWise Raises $14.5 Million to Teach Giant Robots to Grow Our Food

18.09.2019 | IEEE Spectrum | spectrum.ieee.org

We humans spend most of our time getting hungry or eating, which must be really inconvenient for the people who have to produce food for everyone. For a sustainable and tasty future, we’ll need to…

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FarmWise Raises $14.5 Million to Teach Giant Robots to Grow Our Food

‘Hot spots’ increase efficiency of solar desalination

19.06.2019 | Rice University | www.rice.edu

Researchers in Rice’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) showed they could boost the efficiency of their solar-powered desalination system by more than 50% simply by adding inexpensive plastic…

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‘Hot spots’ increase efficiency of solar desalination

Researchers develop viable, environmentally-friendly alternative to Styrofoam

10.05.2019 | Washington State University | wsu.edu

Washington State University researchers have developed an environmentally-friendly, plant-based material that for the first time works better than Styrofoam for insulation.

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Researchers develop viable, environmentally-friendly alternative to Styrofoam

New class of catalysts for energy conversion

08.05.2019 | Ruhr-Universität Bochum | www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en

Numerous chemical reactions relevant for the energy revolution are highly complex and result in considerable energy losses. This is the reason why energy conversion and storage systems or fuel cells…

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New class of catalysts for energy conversion

New Technique Produces Longer-lasting Lithium Batteries

23.04.2019 | Columbia Engineering | engineering.columbia.edu

A Columbia Engineering team led by Yuan Yang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, announced today that they have developed a new method for safely prolonging battery life by…

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