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Rutland Water is a reservoir, an artificial lake in the English Midlands. Several years ago, they introduced Osprey chicks from Scotland in a conservation experiment to see whether this migratory raptor would breed in England again. The experiment was rather successful. You can read all the details on the Wildlife Trust’s site, save me repeating … Continue reading "The Rutland Water Ospreys"

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Blooming brilliant

Researchers deposited a thin-film organic semiconductor onto a piece of flower-shaped quartz, shown under ambient light (left) and 366 nm UV illumination. During his PhD work at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Paolo Giusto developed a technique for using chemical vapor deposition to coat substrates such as this flower, which is about 1.7 cm in diameter, with polymeric carbon nitride. Giusto, who is now a postdoc at the institute, says his technique sidesteps the need for a flat substrate... Читать дальше...

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