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In the most comprehensive report in a half century, experts today described fundamental changes needed in the education of the scientists whose work impacts medicine, drug discovery and virtually every other discipline.
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University of Utah engineers demonstrated it is feasible to build the first organic materials that conduct electricity on their edges, but act as an insulator inside. These materials, called organic topological insulators, could shuttle information at the speed of light in quantum computers and other high-speed electronic devices.
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The 2013 Eastern Analytical Symposium has issued a call for papers in a variety of areas.
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Canada-US-Italian research team develops a cocaine biosensor inspired from nature.
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NSF grantee Vorbeck, one of the first companies to produce graphene-based products, is expanding its operations.
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Vote for your favorite photo among the stunning submissions from the world's top physics facilities, including Brookhaven Lab.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced the first step in the development of a Cybersecurity Framework, which will be a set of voluntary standards and best practices to guide industry in reducing cyber risks to the networks and computers that are vital to the nation's economy, security and daily life.
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Researchers have made the first demonstration of rapidly switching on and off “slow light” in specially designed materials at room temperature.
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A new study from engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, pairs light and genetics to give researchers a powerful new tool for manipulating cells.
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have demonstrated that a new spectroscopy technique can simultaneously measure a material's topography and chemical composition with nanometer-scale spatial resolution.
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Surprising breakthrough could bolster quantum photonics, solar cell efficiency.
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A team of researchers from Michigan are characterizing simple, cheap measurements of labile soil organic matter that could predict the performance of corn crops and help farmers optimize their cropping systems.
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