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The newest of three alternate energy research facilities in the U.S. is slated to debut in fall 2012.
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A large capacity circulating bath designed to replicate the temperature fluctuations associated with beverage packaging, transportation, and storage is now available from PolyScience.
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Similar to the way pavement, softened by a hot sun, will slow down a car, graphene—a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon with wondrous properties—slows down an object sliding across its surface.
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Short Courses offer skill-building and career enhancing training by industry experts; range from half-day up to two-day classes; and include beginner, intermediate, and advanced level curricula.
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In a breakthrough paper published in this week’s issue of Science magazine, Sandia researchers and their partners report direct measurements of reactions of a gas-phase Criegee intermediate using photoionization mass spectrometry.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory says a broad scientific approach to studying rare earth materials needed to ensure continued deployment of clean energy technologies.
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Basic and applied research and energy and environmental research scored significant increases in a 2012 budget bill signed recently by President Obama, but overall R & D spending will decline by 1.3%, according to a new analysis by the AAAS.
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President Obama has named Mildred S. Dresselhaus and Burton Richter as the winners of the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the government’s oldest and most prestigious awards for scientific achievement.
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The state of scientific research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory reached a new performance milestone in 2011.
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In the super-small world of nanostructures, a team of polymer scientists and engineers have discovered how to make nano-scale repairs to a damaged surface equivalent to spot-filling a scratched car fender rather than re-surfacing the entire part.
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The chemical industry, which touches 96 percent of all manufactured goods, is seeing some positive signs for 2012, although the overall outlook is not very rosy.
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This new test takes advantage of unique isotopic labeling combined with specific bacteriophage amplification to rapidly identify Staphylococcus aureus.
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