A New Approach For High Energy Density Li-Ion Batteries
The golden era of electric mobility may be upon us. In 2016, ~160,000 plug-in electric vehicles were sold in the US. To further achieve wide…
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Radioprotectors: Defensive Weapons In The War On Cancer
In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a war on cancer (though with the Vietnam war still ongoing, he never actually used that phrase, calling for…
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Far Ultraviolet Light And Organic Aerosols In Titan And Early Earth Atmospheres
Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn’s system, is famous for being entirely covered by layers of thick orange haze, which are composed of organic aerosols….
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Thermophoretic Effects On Capillary Transport Of Nanofluids
Nanofluid is a dilute suspension of particles, varying in size from 1 nm to 100 nm, suspended in a base fluid (e.g. water). Compared to…
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A New Strategy To Induce Regression Of Advanced K-RAS/TRP53 Mutant Lung Tumors
A study conducted by researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (Centro Nacional de Investigadores Oncológicas) (CNIO), shows that elimination of c-RAF by genetic…
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Microbes: The Right Target To Feed The World And Protect Nature?
In agriculture, nitrogen (N) is one of the most important nutrients to improve plant growth and is applied in the form of fertilizer. Plants can…
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Testing Two Materials As Potential Cometary And Asteroid Analogs
The advent of newspace and commercial space (SpaceX, Blue Origin, etc.) in the early 2000s has brought about the resurgence of the decades-old concept of…
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Habitability: An Atmospheric Consequence?
More than 3000 planets outside our Solar system have been discovered. Around 20 of them are “Goldilocks planets,” planets that orbit the region surrounding a…
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Novel Methods To Minimize Coal Dust Exposure
Coal dust pneumoconiosis is the number one killer of coal miners in China. According to the National Occupational Disease Report released by the National Health…
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Fragment Size Distribution As A Smoking Gun Of Asteroid Family Formation
Among the asteroids, small worlds orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, we find those genetically related to each other. They are members of the…
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Observing Magnetically-Mediated Behavior In Lab Mice
The ability of animals to sense the Earth’s magnetic field for spatial behaviors such as navigation and orientation is well-established. For example, the use of…
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