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Is there a new path to biofuels hiding in a handful of dirt? Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) biologist Steve Singer leads a group that wants to find out.
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Provides greater flexibility for development of sterility test methods.
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A new publishing agreement supports the Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies (ACSESS) mission to provide high quality publication management and marketing to nonprofit scientific societies.
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Creators of a nanotech-based system that captures carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere within a submarine have won the Federal Laboratory Consortium Interagency Partnership Award for 2012.
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has announced a 10-week computational science program to provide a limited number of undergraduate students with paid, hands-on experience using Gordon, the center’s new data-intensive supercomputer.
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Over the past several decades, scientists have faced challenges in developing new antibiotics even as bacteria have become increasingly resistant to existing drugs.
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New device could bring quantum computing to your home.
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Spiders weave a web even more tangled than originally thought – at least on the nanoscale level, according to a new study performed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.
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Researchers honored by the American Cleaning Institute® (ACI, formerly The Soap and Detergent Association) have identified a group of surfactants that are highly effective in acid cleaning formulations in preventing the corrosion of steel surfaces.
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Liquid crystals, the state of matter that makes possible the flat screen technology now commonly used in televisions and computers, may have some new technological tricks in store.
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How antiquated is our nation’s electric grid? It is so backward and inflexible that in order to integrate more sources of renewable energy, such as wind and solar, the current grid requires that we build more power plants.
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After a marathon debate over a pair of studies that show how the avian H5N1 influenza virus could become transmissible in mammals one of the studies was finally and fully published today (May 3, 2012) in the journal Nature
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