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Researchers have succeeded at converting sunlight into electricity with 40 percent efficiency, the highest efficiency to date.

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The ability to use hearts that have stopped beating could substantially increase the number of donor hearts available for transplants.

The participation of citizen scientists could help complete a metagenomics project in months instead of the 40,000 years required for a single PC.

The ARC Center of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging will help to answer how single molecules function in the context of immune cells.

By using old tires instead of non-renewable coke in steel furnaces, researchers saved landfill space equivalent to two million tires.

Two research teams have independently developed quantum bits that are more than 99 percent accurate.

As seen in the case of Tamiflu, better ways of dealing with conflicts of interest are needed, write Adam Dunn and Florence Bourgeois.

A stormy relationship with your mother might affect your own relationship with your child, researchers say.

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