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Algae could absorb pollution emissions at the source
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It’s relatively easy to collect massive amounts of data on microbes. But the files are so large that it takes days to simply transmit them to other researchers and months to analyze once they are received....
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Biofilms may no longer have any solid ground upon which to stand. A team of Harvard scientists has developed a slick way to prevent the troublesome bacterial communities from ever forming on a surface.
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Colloidal quantum dot cell is tops in its class.
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Scientists at Lehigh hope to “turn garbage into gold” by using waste products to grow algae that can be converted into a fuel.
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Interactive proofs — mathematical games that underlie much modern cryptography — work even if players try to use quantum information to cheat.
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University of Rhode Island art student Chelsea Fredrikson has long believed that art and science should be combined in classroom lessons.
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In a quest to make safer and more effective vaccines, scientists at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have turned to a promising field called DNA nanotechnology.
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Eight teams around the country establish collaborations that strengthen the innovation ecosystem.
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U.S. RE Technical Potential study produces estimates across technologies.
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The CMS upgrade is under way at CERN. With the help of several international collaborations, including Fermilab, the Compact Muon Solenoid detector should have a fourth layer of muon detection chambers installed by the start of 2014.
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Eight days before reaching Mars, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft performed a flight-path adjustment scheduled more than nine months ago.
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