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New material provides 25 percent greater thermoelectric conversion efficiency

AMES, Iowa — Automobiles, military vehicles, even large-scale power generating facilities may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to a new alloy developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory. A team of researchers at the…

Foucault, revisited

Washington, D.C. (November 9, 2010) — Walk into nearly any science museum worth its salt and you’re likely to see a Foucault pendulum, a simple but impressive device for observing the Earth’s rotation. Such pendulums have been around for more than …