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Rice’s ‘antenna-reactor’ catalysts offer best of both worlds

Technology marries light-harvesting nanoantennas to high-reaction-rate catalysts HOUSTON -- In a find that could transform some of the world's most energy-intensive manufacturing processes, researchers at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics have unveiled a new method…

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CERN welcomes Romania as its twenty-second Member State

Geneva -- Romania yesterday became the twenty-second Member State of CERN, having acceded to the Organization's founding Convention, deposited with UNESCO. The notification by UNESCO of Romania’s accession to the Convention brings to a conclusion the…

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Electronic nose detects pesticides and nerve gas

Detecting pesticides and nerve gas in very low concentrations. An international team of researchers led by Ivo Stassen and Rob Ameloot from KU Leuven, Belgium, have made it possible. Their findings were published in Chemical Science. The…

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Talking a big bite out of swallowing problems

MADISON - Swallowing is something you do thousands of times a day. But this automatic process relies on a subtle, sophisticated choreography of nerves and muscles, and the ability that most people are born with…