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Equipped with specialized lasers and GPS technology, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research are working with colleagues to solve a critical wintertime weather mystery: how to accurately measure the amount of snow on the ground.
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2011 brought two of the deadliest bacterial outbreaks the world has seen during the last 25 years.
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Scientists have developed a new kind of tiny motor — which they term a “microrocket” — that can propel itself through acidic environments, such as the human stomach, without any external energy source.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded five grants in the second year of the Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD) program.
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Even before the Center for Accelerator Science and Education (CASE) existed, leading accelerator scientists graduated from Stony Brook University with help from mentors at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Individual atoms can make or break electronic properties in one of the world's smallest known conductors—quantum nanowires.
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The budget proposes an appropriations funding level of $857 million, an increase of $106.2 million from FY 2012.
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A team of researchers has built the smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date, as well as an even more startling device: a highly efficient, “thresholdless” laser that funnels all its photons into lasing, without any waste.
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A team of University of Arkansas researchers, including an Honors College undergraduate student, has created a new, “green” method for developing medicines.
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Check out a recent study on women in the sciences.
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