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Cresset’s competition offers chemists the chance to win an iPad by designing the best molecule
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As a woman pursuing a degree in a STEM (science, technology, engineering or math) field heavily dominated by men, Jessica MacAllister, a UW-Madison undergraduate, isn’t the only female who sometimes feels out of place.
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Electrochemical capacitors (ECs), also known as supercapacitors or ultracapacitors, differ from regular capacitors that you would find in your TV or computer...
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Erica Corral, Ph.D., professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Arizona, uses a special furnace – a plasma sintering furnace – to study how nanoengineered materials perform at ultra-high temperatures.
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In a paper appearing this week in the journal Nature Communications, researchers describe using their system to produce recognizable 3-D images of a wooden figurine and of foam cutouts outside their camera’s line of sight.
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Murray Gibson, dean of the College of Science, opened the 15th annual Humic Science and Technology Conference — held last week at Northeastern University.
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new method to reveal the structure of proteins could help researchers understand biological molecules.
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The new GC-MS platform from Bruker Chemical and Applied Markets (CAM) Division – SCION TQ™ – picked up two prestigious awards at last week’s Pittcon in Orlando, Florida.
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International Collaboration the Focus of Scientific Symposium Hosted by Max Planck Florida Institute
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The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) has renewed and expanded a three-year agreement with Pfizer Inc. to collaborate on research projects at the University of California.
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Back when Roxanne Hughes was teaching high school science and coaching track, she noticed an inherent difference between boys and girls — both in the classroom and on the field.....
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Nearly two-thirds of the oil we use comes from wells drilled using polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits, originally developed nearly 30 years ago to lower the cost of geothermal drilling.
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