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Record 27% efficiency: China’s back-contact solar cells break barriers with silicon wafers

A simple process change at the wafer edge allowed Chinese solar power manufacturer Longi’s back-contact cells to reach 27.25% ...
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Chinese fighter jets in 800-meter range tangle with foreign stealth aircraft, PLA claims

China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) claims one of its fighter jets radar-locked a foreign stealth aircraft at 800 meters.
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Chinese firm’s giant electric loader with 280,000-pound payload hits dirt to beat diesel

Chinese heavy machinery manufacturer XCMG has delivered the world’s largest all-electric wheel loader to Fortescue as part of ...
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2,000-year-old Vietnamese burial produces oldest evidence of tooth blackening

Scientists match ancient Vietnamese dental signatures by recreating iron-gall ink formulas used in traditional Southeast ...
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Archaeologists uncover rare 2,000-year-old staircase in Roman governor’s palace

Archaeologists just discovered a Roman governor's palace, staircase, and altar underneath historic Cologne in Germany.
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World’s largest neutrino detector gets 650-sensor boost to track supernova blasts

IceCube's new UV-sensitive modules are expected to reveal neutrinos from distant galaxies, supernovae and other cosmic ...
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Scientists manage to read information stored in Majorana qubits using new technique

Researchers demonstrated that they can access the information stored in Majorana qubits using a new technique called quantum ...
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Record high fusion plasma temperature achieved in US to boost path to commercial fusion

Helion becomes the first privately developed fusion energy machine to demonstrate measurable deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion.
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Amazon-backed next-gen nuclear company wins first US fuel license in 50 years

The NRC has approved TRISO-X to produce advanced HALEU fuel, marking the first new US nuclear fuel license in decades. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a new license that allows TRISO ...
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Time crystals promise to power a new generation of ultra-precise quantum clocks

Using a mathematical model of 100 quantum particles, physicists compared conventional and time-crystalline phases to evaluate timing resolution.
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China shatters 3d printing speed record, fabricates objects in just 0.6 seconds

Scientists at Tsinghua University have developed a groundbreaking 3D printing technology called Digital Incoherent Synthesis ...
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Calcium-ion battery with 1,000-cycle life could challenge lithium-ion dominance

The scientists performance calcium-ion battery using quasi-solid-state electrolytes to rival lithium-ion tech.