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When it’s new, the battery in your phone or electric car works just fine. It charges, discharges, and recharges with smooth ...

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This weekend marks the 250th anniversary of the United States and family gatherings, vacations, and fishing with family and friends will be a large part of the celebration. July 4 is a license-free ...

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NASA unveiled four patriotic-colored images of the cosmos to celebrate America's 250th birthday, revealing everything from an ...

Lignin is a key structural component of plants, the largest renewable source of aromatic chemicals in nature, and is present ...

Gold may stay shiny because some of its surface atoms reorganize into structures that block oxygen reactions. Gold has been valued for millennia because it keeps its shine, but new research from ...

A family watches as their home is destroyed by a fire. Clothes, furniture and photographs become nothing more than memories among the ashes. Making a tragic situation even worse occurs when beloved ...

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Atomic defects can tune carbon quantum dots across UV to near-infrared light, guiding cleaner design of sensors, bioimaging ...

Most people perceive a cork in a bottle of wine as a simple plug meant to keep the liquid in and the outside world out. In ...