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Supermarket shelves stripped bare as panic-buying Britons race for essentials amid coronavirus chaos

Pictures from one Asda store in London showed aisles that had been stripped of toilet roll after the Department of Health and Social Care this afternoon confirmed there were 273 positive cases.




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Fevertree share price jumps Britons buy drinks at convenience stores

Shares in AIM-listed Fevertree, which outsources most of its operations, rose over 13 per cent this afternoon after the group said the in-store arm of its business remained 'robust.'




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The UK's top ten package holiday destinations as Britons shun more expensive locations

In the race to be named the most popular family package holiday destination, Tenerife has come out on top for the second year running, according to TravelSupermarket.




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The Colorado River has lost over a billion tons of water due to climate change, study finds 

A survey found that the Colorado River's flow has decreased by 20 percent over the past century and climate change is the cause of more than half of the loss, as less snow is falling in the region.




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Britons think Heathrow SHOULD have a third runway, despite court ruling £14bn expansion was illegal

The Court of Appeal ruled that the £14billion Heathrow expansion project was illegal because the Government did not take its duty to curb climate change into account.




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Britons share their Houseparty horror stories about uninvited guests

Angry users of the social video app took to Twitter to complain their accounts had been compromised, with one writing: 'Everyone delete your Houseparty account'.




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Growing number of Britons are working from home and in an office

A growing army of workers have gone 'flexi.' That is, they work part of the week in an office and part at home already, potential coronavirus pandemic or not.




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Thoughtful Britons join social media support groups to help vulnerable neighbours

Offers of help have poured in from thoughtful Brits on social media sites including Facebook and Twitter amid fears for the elderly, who are at greatest risk of serious illness as a result of Covid-19.




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Greenland lost 600 BILLION tons of ice last summer raising global sea levels by almost 0.1 inches

In Antarctica, meanwhile, ice has continued to melt from both the Amundsen Sea Embayment and the Antarctic Peninsula, satellite gravity measurements have revealed.




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Skeletons buried near Bamburgh Castle belonged to people who had travelled across the British isles

Over the past 20 years, experts from Durham University have been studying the remains of 110 Anglo-Saxons found buried in the dunes near the Northumberland castle.




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Britons donated £10bn last year: How to benefit from being charitable 

If one of your financial New Year's resolutions was to make this year as tax-efficient as possible, then it's the perfect time to apply it to your charitable giving plans.




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How £25bn a year is wasted on subscriptions Britons don't use

The typical adult spends £496 on regular payments each month, but £39 heads for unused direct debits, standing orders and recurring card payments, according to NatWest.




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One in six Britons has lived with an ex-partner, says Direct Line

Financial pressures often mean that these people cannot afford to get up and leave when they first separate, according to Direct Line.




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Click-to-Pay Buttons May Be in Your Online Shopping Future

On Black Friday in 2018, more than 80% of online shopping carts were abandoned, according to research firm Barilliance. But retailers are hoping new pay buttons will help, and investors are paying close attention.




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UK Govt Announces Five More Flights for Britons Stranded in Amritsar, Ahmedabad

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said that once these flights are completed, over 16,500 travellers will have been brought back from India on 64 special flights.




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'Never give up': Queen praises Britons on Victory in Europe Day

Britain's Queen Elizabeth honored those who died in World War Two on Friday, the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, and used the occasion to say she was proud of how people had responded to the coronavirus pandemic.




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'Never give up': Queen praises Britons on Victory in Europe Day

Britain's Queen Elizabeth honored those who died in World War Two on Friday, the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, and used the occasion to say she was proud of how people had responded to the coronavirus pandemic.




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'Never give up': Queen praises Britons on Victory in Europe Day

Britain's Queen Elizabeth honored those who died in World War Two on Friday, the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, and used the occasion to say she was proud of how people had responded to the coronavirus pandemic.




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'Never give up, never despair': Queen praises Britons on VE Day

Britain's Queen Elizabeth honoured those who died in World War Two on Friday, the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, and used the occasion to say she was proud of how people had responded to the coronavirus pandemic.




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[ASAP] Transfer of Direct to Indirect Bound Excitons by Electron Intervalley Scattering in Cs<sub>2</sub>AgBiBr<sub>6</sub> Double Perovskite Nanocrystals

ACS Nano
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c00997




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Five photons: Remarkable Journeys of Light Across Space and Time / James Geach

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Three photons bind together to make a ‘molecule’ of light

Technique could be used to create quantum-information systems




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5 Reasons Why Social Media Buttons Hurt Nonprofit Websites

That little row of social media buttons has become a ubiquitous feature of most websites. After all, it is good to show off that you are social, and that there are channels where you can interact directly with stakeholders.

But is your website header or sidebar the best place to show that off?

Here are five reasons why having social media buttons on your nonprofits website might do more harm than good:

1) They send visitors away from your website




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New Google News Drops RSS Feed Subscription Buttons

With the new Google News, they did not just drop the standout tag and editors pick but it seems like the direct method to subscribe to Google News via RSS and Google News keyword searches is gone. There are still ways to subscribe, but the buttons seem to be gone in the new design.

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After Unnao, skeletons found in three other UP districts



  • DO NOT USE Uttar Pradesh
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Teenage girl, youth tonsured and paraded in UP for eloping



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UI cheat sheet: radio buttons, checkboxes, and other selectors

In today’s cheat sheet we will be looking at selectors and how they differ. Unlike most of my other cheat sheets, this will focus on two components (radio buttons and checkboxes) side by side for easier comparison — while also comparing them to a few others.




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Progressively enhancing radio buttons with SVG whilst staying accessible

Sometimes it is fun to re-visit very basic HTML things and look what we can do with them nowadays. This is what I will do now with a radio button group. I will progressively enhance it to look great and still work with keyboard and screen readers. As part of my Logo-O-Matic upgrade, I added […]




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Now, pay more for cottonseeds

Five years ago, the AP court had ordered a cut in prices of cottonseeds from Rs 1,600 to Rs 650 per bag. Other states had followed suit




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Exoskeletons Will Make Work Weightless

Ekso Bionics, known for its powered therapeutic exoskeletons, is getting into the construction business with a new exoskeleton suit that makes hefting heavy tools a breeze. WIRED's Adam Rogers suits up for a test drive.




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Atoms and photons and quanta, oh my! : ask the physicist about atomic, molecular, and quantum physics / F. Todd Baker

Baker, F. Todd, 1942- author




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Kohli, Dhawan's tons go in vain




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Phonons and excitons in ZrSe2–ZrS2 alloys

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5732-5743
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00731E, Paper
Sean M. Oliver, Joshua J. Fox, Arsalan Hashemi, Akshay Singh, Randal L. Cavalero, Sam Yee, David W. Snyder, R. Jaramillo, Hannu-Pekka Komsa, Patrick M. Vora
We combine experimental and theoretical methods to understand the impact of long-range Coulomb interactions on phonons and excitons in ZrSxSe2−x.
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Low-threshold stimulated emission in perovskite quantum dots: single-exciton optical gain induced by surface plasmon polaritons at room temperature

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5847-5855
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00198H, Paper
Litao Zhao, Yu Chen, Xiantong Yu, Xiao Xing, Jinquan Chen, Jun Song, Junle Qu
The surface plasmon polaritons induced single-exciton lasing of lead halide perovskite QDs in room temperature may provide a new concept for the further design of low threshold stimulated emission colloidal nanocrystal lasers.
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High efficiency,low efficiency roll-off and long lifetime fluorescent white organic light-emitting diodes based on strategic management of triplet excitons via triplet-triplet annihilation up-conversion and phosphor sensitization

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01622E, Paper
Jingwen Yao, Shu Xiao, Shuai Zhang, Qian Sun, Yanfeng Dai, Xianfeng Qiao, Dezhi Yang, Jiangshan Chen, Dongge Ma
The simultaneous realization of high efficiency, low efficiency roll-off, long lifetime and stable EL spectra in fluorescent white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) is still a huge challenge. Here, we used...
The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry




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Plant triterpenoids with bond-missing skeletons: biogenesis, distribution and bioactivity

Nat. Prod. Rep., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9NP00030E, Review Article
Aldo Almeida, Lemeng Dong, Giovanni Appendino, Søren Bak
A comprehensive review of the overlooked class of plant specialized metabolites, bond-missing triterpenoids; their occurrence, biogenesis and medicinal bioactivities.
To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.
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Photons: the history and mental models of light quanta / Klaus Hentschel

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Physics with photons using the ATLAS run 2 data: calibration and identification, measurement of the Higgs Boson mass and search for supersymmetry in di-photon final state / Stefano Manzoni

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Quantum collisions and confinement of atomic and molecular species, and photons: select proceedings of the 7th Topical Conference of ISAMP 2018 / P. C. Deshmukh, E. Krishnakumar, Stephan Fritzsche, M. Krishnamurthy, Sonjoy Majumder, editors

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Podcast: The rise of skeletons, species-blurring hybrids, and getting rightfully ditched by a taxi

This week we chat about why it’s hard to get a taxi to nowhere, why bones came onto the scene some 550 million years ago, and how targeting bacteria’s predilection for iron might make better vaccines, with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks with news writer Elizabeth Pennisi about the way hybrids muck up the concept of species and turn the evolutionary tree into a tangled web.   Listen to previous podcasts   [Image:  Raul González Alegría; Music: Jeffrey Cook]





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20 Amazing Pure CSS Animated Buttons

If you want to give your website a little extra flair, you’ll definitely want to investigate and utilize CSS animated buttons. These bits of code add a layer of interactivity to your website that most site visitors will appreciate. Plus, …




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[ASAP] Plasmon-Mediated Coherent Superposition of Discrete Excitons under Strong Exciton–Plasmon Coupling in Few-Layer MoS<sub>2</sub> at Room Temperature

ACS Photonics
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00233




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[ASAP] Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer between Dissimilar Materials Mediated by Coupled Surface Phonon- and Plasmon-Polaritons

ACS Photonics
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00404




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[ASAP] Exciton-Polaritons with Magnetic and Electric Character in All-Dielectric Metasurfaces

ACS Photonics
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00063




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[ASAP] Ultrafast Optoelectronic Processes in 1D Radial van der Waals Heterostructures: Carbon, Boron Nitride, and MoS<sub>2</sub> Nanotubes with Coexisting Excitons and Highly Mobile Charges

Nano Letters
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00504




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[ASAP] Reduction of Optical Gain Threshold in CsPbI<sub>3</sub> Nanocrystals Achieved by Generation of Asymmetric Hot-Biexcitons

Nano Letters
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01079




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[ASAP] Bistable State of Protons for Low-Voltage Memories

Journal of the American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c02924




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God and difference : the trinity, sexuality, and the transformation of finitude / Linn Marie Tonstad

Tonstad, Linn Marie, 1978- author




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Solitons in two-dimensional shallow water / Yuji Kodama (The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio)

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