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Andor Zyla high-speed cameras power novel four-lens light-sheet microscope to deliver whole embryo images in under ten seconds.
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Most know that hiding something from others can cause internal angst. New research suggests the consequences can go far beyond emotional strife and that being forced to keep information concealed, such as one’s sexual orientation, disrupts the concealer’s basic skills and abilities, including intellectual acuity, physical strength, and interpersonal grace—skills critical to workplace success.
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Marinda Li Wu, Ph.D., president of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society, comments on today’s award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Martin Karplus, Ph.D., of the Université de Strasbourg and Harvard University; Michael Levitt, Ph.D., of Stanford University; and Arieh Warshel, Ph.D., of the University of Southern California.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2013 to: Martin Karplus of the Université de Strasbourg, France and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; Michael Levitt Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; and Arieh Warshel University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Kenny McCabe and James Schrader grabbed two pots of marigolds and placed them on a greenhouse bench. On the left, in a pot made from a biorenewable mix of soy protein and polylactic acid, was a thick plant with three orange-gold blooms and four buds about to pop, its leaves a rich and dark green.
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The glow of winning the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine hasn’t done a whole lot to chase away the darkness of the current poor funding environment in the U.S. for basic research.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the Nobel Prize in physics to theorists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert to recognize their work developing the theory of what is now known as the Higgs field, which gives elementary particles mass.
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The key to a better understanding of the carbon cycle, the flow of contaminants, even the sustainable growth of biofuel crops, starts with the ground beneath your feet. More specifically, it starts with the genomes of the microbes that live in the water and sediment beneath your feet.
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UC Riverside psychologist leads research project funded by $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant.
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Randy W. Schekman, professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, has won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in revealing the machinery that regulates the transport and secretion of proteins in our cells. He shares the prize with James E. Rothman of Yale University and Thomas C. Südhof of Stanford University.
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