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According to reports, Amanda has submitted an Intellectual Property Office application to trademark her name for future use on beauty products and website.

Young people across Essex can learn lifesaving CPR skills through a free national livestream.

Hundreds of Essex pupils learnt about climate change and the environment at Let's Talk Trash at Braxted Park.

They will take place until October 7

Young people across Essex can learn lifesaving CPR skills through a free national livestream.

Hundreds of Essex pupils learnt about climate change and the environment at Let's Talk Trash at Braxted Park.

The final developer build offers a glimpse of the future Cupertino abandoned for NeXT

Could this push solar cell efficiency beyond the theoretical 33% limit? Interesting Engineering reports: Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands found that tin-based perovskite solar cells can slow heat loss from high-energy "hot electrons..." When sunlight strikes a panel, photons jump-start electrons into action. The most energetic photons create super-charged hot electrons... [but] in fractions of a trillionth of a second, these high-energy particles rapidly cool, dumping their bonus energy as waste heat before ever leaving the solar cell... In collaboration with Maria Antonietta Loi, professor of Photophysics and Optoelectronics, the team created an experimental setup. Using a specialized solar cell material called tin-based perovskite, Loi's lab performed a feat many thought impossible: she slowed the heat loss down by a factor of 1,000. Suddenly, the extra energy lingered for nanoseconds instead of vanishing in picoseconds... To solve the puzzle, Koster and PhD student Tim Faber built digital simulations to peel back the quantum layers. And discovered a surprising double-action mechanism at work... The simulations matched the exact nanosecond delay observed in the lab... These specialized materials could be used to build a new generation of super-efficient solar cells. Tin-based metal halide perovskites are non-toxic, eco-friendly crystalline materials for high-performance solar energy conversion... The material possesses an unusually low electron mass. As a result, electric charges move quickly and retain extra thermal energy for extended periods. This combination of broad light absorption, efficient charge movement, and prolonged energy retention makes these materials prime candidates for next-generation solar panels. "There are many other questions that still need answers," the team said in their announcement, "but in theory, this discovery could allow the creation of more efficient solar cells, beyond the theoretical limit of 33 percent." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot for sharing the article.

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My son Henry won't retire until roughly 2088. He's only five and has just started his second year at primary school, but I'm already planning ahead for him.

Filming for I'm A Celebrity's spin-off, The Wild Frontier, was disrupted by an angry ex crew member who blocked a show trial in a dispute over pay, according to reports.

Is this 'the end' of Ed Sheeran as we know him after facing backlash for removing Macklemore from his US tour?

He and two others were part of a network which sent stolen phones to China

The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks

The heartbroken mother of a British woman, who was allegedly shot dead by her father during an argument over President Donald Trump in Texas, is demanding a new investigation.

Andy took to his Instagram stories on Saturday and revealed he has been inundated with messages of support from male sex assault victims after sharing his harrowing ordeal.

John Healey has conceded the Government is 'evolving its stance' on council tax - warning of possible change for those who have 'extremely valuable properties'.

My mother always used to say (usually when my brother or I had done something idiotic) that if people thought about having children for more than five minutes, humans would swiftly die out.

The news is a fresh pre-Budget blow to John Healey as the Chancellor looks to placate jittery markets with a speech to delegates at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool tomorrow.

Tough on immigration. It's the one policy the Tories offered, once Brexit was done, that the public actually liked.

Ten NHS staff have been suspended or removed from active duty while unauthorised access to three-year-old Noah Woods' medical records is investigated