Record-breaking Solar Cell Announced by Multinational Research Team
Credit: John Asbury lab, Penn State University Highest ever power conversion efficiency in a colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cell has been achieved using inorganic ligands. Credit: John Asbury lab, Penn State University.
Endangered Horse Has Ancient Origins and High Genetic Diversity, New Study Finds
Kateryna Makova and her team studied DNA from the endangered Przewalski's horse, which has ancient origins. Credit: Makova lab, Penn State University
Innovative Nanoparticle Purification System Uses Magnetic Fields
"Nano-olives" are made up of an iron oxide "olive" with an iron and platinum "pimento." Together the components make a highly magnetic particle structure, which may one day be useful for data storage in computers. Credit: The Schaak/Williams research groups, Penn State.
Atomic Clock with the World's Best Long-term Accuracy Is Revealed by Research
Credit: National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom
Distant Black Hole Discovered Devouring a Sun-like Star
Images from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical (white, purple) and X-Ray telescopes (yellow and red) were combined to make this view of Swift J1644+57. Evidence of flares is seen only in the X-ray image, a 3.4-hour exposure taken on March 28, 2011. Credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler
Video: New Forensic Fingerprinting Approach Retrieves Elusive Prints
Ancestry of Polar Bears Traced to Ireland
Beth Shapiro's research team concluded that all living polar bears trace their maternal ancestor to a brown bear that lived near present-day Britain and Ireland just prior to the last ice age. Credit: Daniel J. Cox/NaturalExposures.com
Scientists Sequence Endangered Tasmanian Devil's Genome
Zoo keeper and breeder Tim Faulkner holds a Tasmanian devil -- an endangered marsupial found in the wild in the Australian island-state of Tasmania. Credit: Stephan C. Schuster, Penn State
Slowing the Spread of Drug-Resistant Diseases Is Goal of New Research Area
This colored 2005 scanning electron micrograph (SEM) shows numerous clumps of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, commonly referred to by the acronym, MRSA, magnified 2390 times. Credit: Janice Haney Carr/CDC/ Jeff Hageman, M.H.S.
Life-History Traits May Affect DNA Mutation Rates in Males More Than in Females
Credit: Anton Nekrutenko, Penn State
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