Integrating graphene, reduced graphene oxide onto silicon chips at room temperature

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Researchers have developed a technique that allows them to integrate graphene, graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide onto silicon substrates at room temperature using lasers. The advance raises the possibility of creating new electronic devices, and the researchers are already planning to use the technique to create smart biomedical sensors.
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Understanding how flat phosphorus grows

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Modeling the growth of tiny flakes of a two-dimensional form of phosphorus could help researchers one day produce better electronics, say scientists.
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NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble

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Explaining why the universe can be 'transparent': Universe's reionization is based on a galaxy's dust content

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Scientists can explain why the universe has enough energy to become transparent. The study marks the first quantitative study of how the gas content within galaxies scales with the amount of interstellar dust.
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Mars rover views spectacular layered rock formations

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The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the "Murray Buttes" region of lower Mount Sharp. The new images arguably rival photos taken in U.S. National Parks.
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NASA's THEMIS sees Auroras move to the rhythm of Earth's magnetic field

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For the first time, scientists have directly mapped Earth's fluctuating magnetic field and resulting electrical currents to aurora, thanks to northern lights observations from NASA's THEMIS mission.
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Moon is proto-earth's mantle, relocated, chemistry suggests

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The leading theory for the moon's formation got in trouble recently when it was revealed that the moon and Earth are isotopic twins. Now highly precise measurements of the isotopes of an element that was still condensed at the "cut off" temperature when material started to fall back to Earth suggest a dramatic solution to the problem.
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Semiconducting inorganic double helix

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It is the double helix, with its stable and flexible structure of genetic information, that made life on Earth possible in the first place. Now a team has discovered a double helix structure in an inorganic material. The material comprising tin, iodine and phosphorus is a semiconductor with extraordinary optical and electronic properties, as well as extreme mechanical flexibility.
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Q&A: Is Space Junk Creating Earth’s Own Ring?

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From a certain point of view, all that stuff does look like a ring. But it’s a far cry from all the ice and rock ringing Saturn.
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Meet New Glenn, the Blue Origin Rocket That May Someday Take You to Space

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“Our vision is millions of people living and working in space, and New Glenn is a very important step,” said Jeffrey P. Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and Blue Origin.
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