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Aluminium oxide layer improves solar cells’ efficiency by over 1pc

Washington, May 15: A collaborative study by experts at Eindhoven University of Technology and Fraunhofer Institute has helped improve the efficiency of solar cells by more than one per cent.

Nanowires may help to boost solar cell efficiency

Washington, May 15: Electrical engineers have created experimental solar cells spiked with nanowires that could lead to highly efficient thin-film solar cells of the future.

Mechanism by which information can be recovered from black holes identified

Washington, May 15: Physicists at Penn State in the US have provided a mechanism by which information can be recovered from black holes.

New vaccine may help consign meningitis to the history books

London, May 15: British scientists have achieved a significant breakthrough in obtaining powerful immune responses in 150 infants against meningitis, the infection that kills about one in 10 and of

Polar Bears left vulnerable after being listed as threatened, not endangered

London, May 15 : Polar bears have been listed as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA), rather than endangered.

Internal liquid ocean beneath Europa’s icy crust may host life

Washington, May 15: Scientists have determined that poles on Jupiter’s moon Europa may have wandered by almost 90 degrees, an extreme shift that suggests the existence of an internal liquid ocean b

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