#3D printed batteries handle the squeeze

“#3D printed batteries handle the squeeze” 3D printed batteries compress by up to 60%. Credit ACS Nano While flexible and stretchable electronics technologies have progressed in leaps and bounds over the past 10 years, batteries to power them have some catching up to do. Researchers in Singapore and China have now demonstrated a “quasi-solid-state” battery—made…

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#Unusual nanoparticles could benefit the quest to build a quantum computer

“#Unusual nanoparticles could benefit the quest to build a quantum computer” < div> < div> < div data-src=”https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2020/blinkingquot.jpg” data-sub-html=”The arrows point to titanium dioxide nanocrystals lighting up and blinking (left) and then fading (right). Credit: Tewodros Asefa and Eliska Mikmekova” data-thumb=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2020/blinkingquot.jpg”> <img alt=”‘Blinking” crystals may convert CO2 into fuels” height=”292″ src=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800/2020/blinkingquot.jpg” title=”The arrows point to…

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#New technology promises to revolutionize nanomedicine

“#New technology promises to revolutionize nanomedicine” Header image. Distracting macrophages. Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and their colleagues from Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a breakthrough technology to resolve a key problem that has prevented…

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#Rare twin red-ruffed lemurs born at Singapore zoo

“#Rare twin red-ruffed lemurs born at Singapore zoo” The twin red-ruffed lemurs are moved in a pet-carrier to a vet for check-up in this picture relased by Wildlife Reserves Singapore Twin red-ruffed lemurs have been born at Singapore zoo, officials said Thursday, a rare double delivery that is a boost for the endangered saucer-eyed primates….

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#New research shows climate was the key factor impacting the movement of the first farmers across Europe

“#New research shows climate was the key factor impacting the movement of the first farmers across Europe” Credit: University of Roehampton The research, a collaboration between the University of Roehampton, the University of Cambridge and several other institutions, combined archeological data with palaeoclimatic reconstructions to show for the first time that climate dramatically impacted the…

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#Giant Hawaii telescope builders say no construction in 2020

“#Giant Hawaii telescope builders say no construction in 2020” Scientists planning to build one of the world’s largest telescopes on a Hawaii mountain said Wednesday construction won’t begin until at least next year. TMT International Observatory Vice President Gordon Squires told Hawaii News Now that the coronavirus pandemic presents a complicated and unsafe situation for…

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#Siberia heat ‘almost impossible’ without climate change

“#Siberia heat ‘almost impossible’ without climate change” The study found that the prolonged heat this year across Siberia would happen less than once every 80,000 years without human-induced climate change A recent heatwave in Siberia that saw temperature records tumble as the region sweltered in 38-Celsius highs was “almost impossible” without the influence of manmade…

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