NANOTECHNOLOGIES & SOLAR ENERGY, MISSING COSMIC MATTER
Date: Thursday, February 03, 2005 @ 21:58:29 UTC
Topic: General
NANOTECHNOLOGIES COULD SLASH COST OF SOLAR ENERGY, February 03
Nanotechnologies which can artificially change the optical properties of materials to allow light to be trapped in solar cells could greatly reduce the cost of solar energy. Research being carried out by the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton is focusing on nanopatterning as the way to design effective solar panels.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news2916.html
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NASA FINDS MISSING COSMIC MATTER, February 03
Found: 7 percent of the mass of the universe. Missing since: 10 billion years ago.
Consider one more astronomical mystery solved. Scientists have located a sizeable chunk of the universe that seemed to be missing since back when the stars first formed. It's floating in super-hot rivers of gas, invisible to the naked eye, surrounding galaxies like our own. And a completely different kind of mystery matter -- dark matter -- may have put it there. The results appear in the current issue of the journal Nature.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news2914.html
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