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At the White House today, President Barack Obama met in the Oval Office with the seven U.S. recipients of the 2010 Kavli Prizes to recognize and honor their seminal contributions to the three fields for which the Prizes are awarded -- astrophysics, n
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Neutron analysis of the atomic dynamics behind thermal conductivity is helping scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory gain a deeper understanding of how thermoelectric materials work. The analysis could spur the de
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, June 5, 2011- In 2030, when you plug in your toaster, car or smart phone, where will the electricity come from? Or, will the electrons be there at all? In the midst of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster and as sum
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In an important environmental victory, UC San Diego and the University of California Office of the President have persuaded state regulators to drop a requirement that UC campuses use a potent greenhouse gas in a required laboratory safety test. The
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Webcast: Calculating ROI from an ELN Project Guelph, ON (June 1, 2011) - This complimentary webcast will help organizations assess the business case for implementing an ELN by identifying both the costs of implementation and the savings generated
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The new SZ-100 series instruments analyze key particle physical properties including size and zeta potential. In addition, it can be used to determine protein and polymer molecular weight, and second virial coefficient (A2).
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ATX/ATY Series Analytical Balances Offer One-Touch Calibration and Advanced Sensor Technology for Reliable Measurement
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Liquid crystal droplets could replace horseshoe crab blood in common endotoxin test The Food and Drug Administration requires every drug they certify to be tested for certain poisons that damage patient health. The current gold standard for
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Recent discussions of methods by which biomass—grasses, trees, and other vegetation—could be turned into fuel makes a lot of sense in theory. Plant matter is composed of energy-intensive carbohydrates, but even now scientists still done
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Newswise — Over time, plants have evolved to adapt to a constantly changing, often hostile, environment. Unfortunately, they are facing a new and difficult challenge ahead. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, their environment has become
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Sheldon Manufacturing, Inc. introduces the SHEL LAB Model LI20P, the first widely available, environmentally friendly, thermoelectric cooled incubator designed for low temperature applications.
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A newly announced NASA mission to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth will include an instrument built at...
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