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looks like Mother Nature was wasting her time with a multimillion-year process to produce crude oil. Michigan Engineering researchers can "pressure-cook" algae for as little as a minute and transform an unprecedented 65 percent of the green slime into biocrude.
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In light of the significant disruption caused by Hurricane Sandy along the United States Atlantic Coast, SLAS has extended the SLAS2013 early-bird deadline to Monday, Nov. 5 (from Oct. 31).
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Completing the first phase of the 1000 Genomes Project, a multinational team of scientists reports that they have sampled a total of 1092 individuals from 14 different populations and sequenced their full genomes.
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Hurricane Sandy has passed. We are mindful of all the problems the storm may have caused for our friends and neighbors. We assure all of our friends in the EAS family that the Symposium will take place as scheduled.
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According to research from Amit Kramer, a professor of labor and employment relations at the University of Illinois, employees who are more satisfied with their pay report lower levels of work-family conflict.
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Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have identified mechanisms in the brain responsible for regulating cocaine-seeking behavior, providing an avenue for drug development that could greatly reduce the high relapse rate among cocaine addicts.
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Like a movie star constantly retouching her makeup, the protoplanet Vesta is continually stirring its outermost layer and presenting a young face.
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Seven years ago, physics professor Latika Mennon’s first graduate student said he wanted to “change the world.”
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To solve the very big ecological and economic problems caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of researchers is thinking very small.
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Proteins are able to self-assemble into a wide range of highly ordered structures that feature a diverse array of properties. Through biomimicry – technological innovation inspired by nature – humans hope to emulate proteins and produce our own version of self-assembling molecules.
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