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Chirality yields colossal photocurrent
12:26pm, 4th March, 2019

Chirality yields colossal photocurrent

(Boston College) Typically, light is converted to electricity by chemically altering a semiconductor to have a built-in electric field. A team of researchers from Boston College, the University of California Los Angeles, and Ecole Polytechnique Feder...
Alien species are primary cause of recent global extinctions
8:24pm, 3rd March, 2019

Alien species are primary cause of recent global extinctions

(University College London) Alien species are the main driver of recent extinctions in both animals and plants, according to a new study by UCL researchers. They found that since 1500, alien species have been solely responsible for 126 extinctions, 1...
Top ten computer science education research papers recognized
3:53pm, 2nd March, 2019

Top ten computer science education research papers recognized

(Association for Computing Machinery) As a capstone to its 50th annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, leaders of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) are celebrating the ideas that h...