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Rice University makes eclipse animations available to media

Space scientist Patricia Reiff available to discuss Aug. 21 eclipse HOUSTON -- Leading up to the Aug. 21 full lunar eclipse, which will be viewable in a vast swath of the United States, Rice Space Institute at Rice University is making…

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Technique enables printable and rewritable color images

[caption id="attachment_12860" align="alignnone" width="908"] These structural colors were printed on the same sheet of paper coated with copolymers through the application of ammonium persulfate and ethanol. Hydrogen bromide was used to neutralize the solvents and…

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Thirty year-old microbiology experiment

[caption id="attachment_12857" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: ESA–G. Porter[/caption] This humble parcel-sized hardware is Europe’s very first closed-loop life-support experiment to fly in space, 30 years ago this week. Today, ESA leads the 11-nation Micro-Ecological Life Support…

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Tiny terahertz laser could be used for imaging,…

New design boosts the power output of the best-performing chip-scale terahertz laser by 80 percent. [caption id="attachment_12854" align="alignnone" width="639"] A new technique boosts the power output of tiny, chip-mounted terahertz lasers by 88 percent.Image: Demin…