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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in partnership with Intel and Cray, today announced a unique high performance computing (HPC) cluster that will serve research scientists at all three institutions and provide a proving ground for new HPC and Big Data technologies and architectures.
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As congressional budget leaders continue negotiations over Fiscal Year 2014 spending levels, three organizations representing the nation's leading public and private research universities today (Nov. 11) released the results of a new survey looking at sequestration's impact on research across the country.
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Ivy, which grows abundantly in Wales, is just one of a range of plants being investigated for the fine chemicals and other valuable extracts and fibres that they contain.
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Innovation Corps project explores how to bring technology to the field.
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Carbon nanotubes that detect nitric oxide can be implanted under the skin for more than a year.
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$5.5M NASA-funded research collaborative will pave the way for future space exploration.
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Powerful laser technique will dramatically expand the number of drug targets accessible for research and discovery.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that it has awarded nearly $10 million to an academic, industry, and government consortium – including researchers at the University of Idaho – to study the major challenges limiting the use of insect-killed trees in the Rockies as a sustainable resource for bioenergy.
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On Nov. 8, Purdue University unveiled a new building and facilities for the expansion of the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories, a hub of industry-oriented research in areas ranging from advanced automotive technologies to "smart" buildings.
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On the continental margins, where the seafloor drops hundreds of meters below the water’s surface, low temperatures and high pressure lock methane inside ice crystals. Called methane hydrates, these crystals are a potential energy source, but they are also a potential source of global warming if massive amounts of methane were released during an earthquake or by rising ocean temperatures.
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Clay – a seemingly infertile blend of minerals – might have been the birthplace of life on Earth.
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Australian researchers have found that zinc can 'starve' one of the world's most deadly bacteria by preventing its uptake of an essential metal.
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