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The National Academy of Sciences will honor 18 individuals with awards in recognition of their outstanding scientific achievements in a wide range of fields spanning the physical, biological, and social sciences. The recipients for 2013 are:
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Technologically valuable ultrastable glasses can be produced in days or hours with properties corresponding to those that have been aged for thousands of years, computational and laboratory studies have confirmed.
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FDA | Food Safety Standards | Produce Safety | Public encouraged to comment on new proposals.
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More than 150 young companies to showcase prototype technology in the return of the Eureka Park Tech Zone at CES.
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Berkeley Lab research could lead to a better understanding of the Arctic ecosystem’s impact on the planet's climate.
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A science-inclined audience and wide array of communications tools make the Internet an excellent opportunity for scientists hoping to share their research with the world.
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has joined forces with researchers in South Korea to develop a conceptual design for a pioneering fusion facility in that Asian nation.
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Scalable nanopatterned surfaces designed by MIT researchers could make for more efficient power generation and desalination.
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Today, in a second settlement arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, Transocean Deepwater Inc., the operator of the drilling platform, agreed to pay $1.4 billion in civil and criminal penalties to the federal government.
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Astronomers have used the ALMA telescope to get their first glimpse of a fascinating stage of star formation in which planets forming around a young star are helping the star itself continue to grow, resolving a longstanding mystery.
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The human genome is like a roadmap for the body, but our understanding of the road signs that point some people toward a long life and others to an early death is still limited.
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Berkeley Lab bioscientists and their colleagues decipher a far-reaching problem in computer simulations.
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