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University of Arkansas grad student becomes the first scientist to collect slime molds from soils in Panama’s Barro Colorado Nature Monument. In doing so, she becomes one of the first researchers to systematically take samples of slime molds, the most abundant predators of soil bacteria and fungi, in tropical soils.
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Theoretical research reveals that experimental crystal structure of an important energy material is impossible.
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Research will help develop a resource for human disease study.
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The University of Adelaide's Centre for Energy Technology is part of a major solar research initiative aimed at lowering the cost of solar thermal power, announced by the Australian Government today.
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Slums in the world’s fast-growing cities are often seen as problems and, in most cases, outside the law. But, from Paris and Tokyo 150 years ago to Mumbai and Johannesburg today, slums consistently emerge as a byproduct of the socioeconomic pressures of rapid urbanization, and they often don’t get the credit they deserve as entry points to the city for poor migrants, or for the economic activity they generate.
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One of the great mysteries of life is how it began. What physical process transformed a nonliving mix of chemicals into something as complex as a living cell? For more than a century, scientists have struggled to reconstruct the key first steps on the road to life.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study of the batteries commonly used in hybrid and electric-only cars has revealed an unexpected factor that could limit the performance of batteries currently on the road.
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Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a previously unseen population of seven primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago, when the universe was less than 3 percent of its present age.
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At a ceremony at Indiana University’s Bloomington campus, Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) welcomed the Laboratory of Biological Mass Spectrometry and Professor David Clemmer, the Robert and Marjorie Mann Chair of Chemistry and the Associate Dean of Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences into its Centers of Innovation Program.
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Mass Spec 2013 in Singapore focuses on teaching analytical chemists fundamentals of mass spectrometry.
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory will host a panel discussion titled “Stories From The Front: The Entrepreneurial Experience” on Monday, January 14, from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
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A research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a relatively simple, fast and effective method of depositing uniform, ultrathin layers of platinum atoms on a surface.
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