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KAUST team alters atomic composition of MoS2 to boost performance as water-splitting catalyst for H2 production

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Researchers at KAUST have developed and used a novel way of increasing the chemical reactivity of a two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide material to produce a cheap and effective catalyst for water splitting to produce hydrogen. This technique may also have potential benefits for other manufacturing industries. —Lain-Jong Li.

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

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With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh It is not only wise we devote our resources toward solar technology; it is essential. Resources. [ 1 ] [link] , [link]. [

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. Had Trek been a larger company with more resources and more patent experience, the story might have had a different ending. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

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Put it down partly to the rising demand for cheap antimissile defense, but it’s mainly the result of technical advances in high-energy lasers. With an airplane you have the least amount of resources—least volume, least weight—that is available to you. Why are we getting ray guns only now, more than a century after H.G. www.youtube.com.

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