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Air, water and sun: the ingredients of ‘green gasoline’

14 Oct 2013

Mimicking a natural process perfected over billions of years to capture solar energy, researchers are creating artificial photosynthetic systems that...

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Breakthrough study models dying stars in a lab

15 Feb 2013

Researchers have successfully recreated the conditions close to the surface of a white dwarf, allowing them to examine what happens in one of the...

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