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Two Lehigh physicists have made significant artistic and scholarly contributions to a special issue on nanocarbon materials that was published recently by an international magazine.
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Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have created a new method for analyzing RNA transcripts from samples of 50 to 100 cells. The approach could be used to develop inexpensive and rapid methods for diagnosing cancers at early stages, as well as better tools for forensics, drug discovery and developmental biology.
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Just as our bodies have skeletons, so do our cells. They’re equally indispensable in both cases. Without our bony skeletons we’d go limp and fall down. And without our cytoskeletons, our cells, which come in roughly 200 different shapes and sizes, would all become tiny spheres and stop working.
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Letter argues that NSF's purview must extend to research in the social science and behavioral sciences
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Errors in the human genetic code that arise from mismatched nucleotide base pairs in the DNA double helix can lead to cancer and other disorders. In microbes, such errors provide the basis for adaption to environmental stress.
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Surfaces with differently shaped nanoscale textures may yield improved materials for applications in transportation, energy, and diagnostics.
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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) awarded Sandia National Laboratories a Best in Class Sustainability Award for improvements in the labs’ Saturn and High Energy Radiation Megavolt Electron Source (HERMES) III pulsed power facilities.
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NSF, NIH, USDA and NASA fund development of robots that collaborate with humans for enhanced productivity.
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A new Department of Energy grant will fund research to advance an additive manufacturing technique for fabricating three-dimensional (3D) nanoscale structures from a variety of materials.
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Diamonds, usually forged in overwhelming heat and pressure miles deep in the Earth’s mantle, have now been made at atmospheric pressure and 100 degrees Celcius—the boiling point of water.
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