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Contact: Lori Oliwenstein lorio@caltech.edu 626-395-3631 California Institute of Technology PASADENA, Calif. – Using arrays of long, thin silicon wires embedded in a polymer substrate, a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created a new type of flexible solar cell that enhances the absorption of sunlight…
[NEWS] Contact: Kim McDonald scinews@ucsd.edu 858-534-7572 University of California – San Diego Biologists at UC San Diego have identified the specific region in vertebrates where adult blood stem cells arise during embryonic development. Their discovery, which appears in a paper in this week’s early online edition of the journal Nature,</e…
[NEWS] Contact: Sarah Yang scyang@berkeley.edu 510-643-7741 University of California – Berkeley Berkeley – In research that gives literal meaning to the term “power suit,” University of California, Berkeley, engineers have created energy-scavenging nanofibers that could one day be woven into clothing and textiles. These nano-siz…