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US customs detains shipments from Chinese solar makers on charges of force
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The US customs didn't clear a "single shipment" after which a Chinese solar company said that they are in the process of providing the "supplementing evidence" to them.
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Next-generation material that adapts to its history: Research
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Inspired by living systems, researchers have developed a new material that changes its electrical behaviour based on previous experience, effectively giving it a basic form of adaptive memory. Such adaptive materials could play a vital role in the next generation of medical and environmental
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Scientists reveal discoveries made about promising solar cell material
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A team of scientists from the Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory developed a new characterization tool that allowed them to gain unique insight into a possible alternative material for solar cells. Under the leadership of Jigang Wang, senior scientist from Ames Lab, the team dev
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Cosmic chocolate pralines, general neutron star structure revealed: Resear
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
So far, little is known about the interior of neutron stars, those extremely compact objects that can form after the death of a star: the mass of our sun or even more is compressed into a sphere with the diameter of a large city. Since their discovery more than 60 years ago, scientists have
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Study of 'polluted' white dwarfs finds that stars and planets grow togethe
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A team of astronomers has found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as their parent star.
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Synthetic hibernation could provide protection from cosmic radiation
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
It is still a glimpse into the future: Astronauts could be put into artificial hibernation and in this state be better protected from cosmic radiation. At present, there are already promising approaches to follow up such considerations.
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Sunsure Commissions 74 MW Industrial Solar Park in Tamil Nadu
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], November 15 (ANI/PRNewswire): Sunsure Energy completed the construction of a 74MWp Open Access Solar Power Plant in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu.
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US space plane lands after 908 days in orbit
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The solar-powered spacecraft resembles the retired space shuttle, but is several times smaller, about 9 meters (29 feet) long. Its five previous missions in orbit lasted from 224 to 780 days.
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Egypt: Indian Oil's sustainable initiatives session held at COP 27 in Shar
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Indian Oil Corporation Limited held a session on biofuels, sustainable solar-based cooking, carbon-efficient refinery technologies, and its initiatives in the energy transition during the ongoing COP 27 summit in Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh on Saturday.
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Electrodeless device shows promise in pushing boundaries of space travel:
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Space missions already use electric propulsion devices, where electromagnetic fields are utilized to generate the thrust of spacecraft. One such electrodeless device, which harnesses radio frequency (rf) to generate plasma and a magnetic nozzle (MN) to channel and accelerate plasma, has show
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Earth-sun distance dramatically alters seasons in equatorial Pacific: Stud
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Weather and climate modelers understand pretty well how seasonal winds and ocean currents affect El Nino patterns in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, impacting weather across the United States and sometimes worldwide.
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Supernova in distant space allows us to understand the origin of elements
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A supernova is a stellar explosion, which occurs when the lives of some really massive stars come to an end. In this violent epilogue, the star expels the material from its outer layers by means of a shock wave, allowing us to see the various elements it was composed of.
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