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Deliberate practice may not have nearly as much influence in building expertise as we thought, according toresearch published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Could playing video games help people understand and address global sustainability issues such as pollution, drought or climate change? At least two researchers believe so, outlining their argument in a concept paper published in the journal “First Monday.”

Following a thorough damage assessment, the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory had restored power to the linear accelerator. All safety systems and fire suppression systems have been restored. SLAC will start up accelerator operation and resume operations at both LCLS and FACET, according to the lab's website. The fire had shut down the lab as of late Thursday, June 28, but there were no injuries and no danger to the community, the university said in a statement.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered a widely distributed group of marine bacteria that produce compounds nearly identical to toxic man-made fire retardants.

SP Industries, Inc. (SP), a leading designer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, biological drug manufacturing solutions, and specialty glassware, has announced that it has acquired privately held Bel-Art Products (Bel-Art). Headquartered in Wayne (NJ, USA), Bel-Art is a global provider of innovative laboratory solutions serving the scientific, industrial, and healthcare end markets.

Green-chemistry researchers at McGill University have discovered a way to use water as a solvent in one of the reactions most widely used to synthesize chemical products and pharmaceuticals.

Stanley Miller, the chemist whose landmark experiment published in 1953 showed how some of the molecules of life could have formed on a young Earth, left behind boxes of experimental samples that he never analyzed. The first-ever analysis of some of Miller’s old samples has revealed another way that important molecules could have formed on early Earth.











