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Each year in the United States, cats deposit about 1.2 million metric tons of feces into the environment, and that poop is carrying with it what may be a vast and underappreciated public health problem, say scientists July 9 in the journal Trends in Parasitology, a Cell Press publication.
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A normally staid University of Chicago scientist has stunned many of his colleagues with his radical solution to a 135-year-old mystery in cosmochemistry.
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July 5, 2013—Lithium ion batteries are at the energetic heart of almost all things tech, from cell phones to tablets to electric vehicles. That’s because they are a proven technology, light, long-lasting and powerful. But they aren’t perfect.
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Crowd-funding continues to play a bigger and bigger role in scientific research, especially with the reduced budgets many researchers now have to deal with.
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Canadian universities strengthened ties with leading academic institutions in Israel today (July 8), paving the way for heightened research collaboration and improved student and faculty mobility between the two countries.
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Changing something as simple as how labels are barcoded can increase the safety of the immunization system
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Michigan State University scientists will lead a $14.1 million initiative to better understand how environmental contaminants called dioxins affect human health and to identify new ways of removing them from the environment.
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International research-and-education experiences in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics hold promise for students seeking to advance science globally.
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Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), working with colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), will conduct a field campaign this summer and fall in the skies over the Pacific Northwest and Tennessee to measure the evolution of aerosols in wildfires and prescribed agriculture burns, respectively.
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R&D Magazine announced the winners and three technologies from Los Alamos National Laboratory and its partners are among the honorees.
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