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It’s a mission where failure will be success — and that’s exactly what NASA engineers are hoping for. Managed by the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., the experiments will enable ...

A cross-disciplinary UIUC team has demonstrated a major breakthrough in using automated synthesis to discover new molecules for organic electronics applications. The technology that enabled the ...

There comes a time when almost everyone struggles to collect costly components for hobby electronics experiments. Let us face it. When a new idea pops up, a profitable strategy is to repurpose some ...

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A cross-disciplinary team has demonstrated a major breakthrough in using automated synthesis to discover new molecules for organic electronics applications. Using automated synthesis, the team was ...