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Self-Assembling Nanoparticles Offer Super-Efficient, Portable Water Desalination

Solar desalination is a tantalizing cure-all to Earth's fresh-water woes. After all, this is where fresh water comes from naturally as part of the planet's water cycle&mdas...

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NASA Engineers Unveil The First Light-Based Modem For Spacecraft

To send and receive data, orbiting spacecraft depend on radio-frequency communications. It's been this way since the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, which made use of two radio f...

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One Small Optical Chip, One Giant Leap For Quantum Computing

Today marked the unveiling of a reprogrammable optical chip that is capable of processing photons in an infinite variety of ways. This development marks a massive step towa...

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The First Graphene Light Bulb Is Also The 'World's Thinnest' Light Bulb

On your rapidly diminishing list of things graphene cannot improve, go ahead and cross off “light bulbs.” An international team of researchers drawn from Columb...

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Engineers Stumble On A Whole New Method Of Laser-Based Spacecraft Propulsion

A team of Chinese physicists has developed a new variety of light-based propulsion system with the ability to harness much greater forces than a conventional solar sail. Th...

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