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The research team recently demonstrated the first use of a heat pipe to cool a small nuclear reactor and power a Stirling engine.
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With the holiday season quickly approaching, many Nova Scotians are preparing for the annual selection of the perfect Balsam Fir tree for their home for the holidays
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If you want to get rid of unwanted, negative thoughts, try just ripping them up and tossing them in the trash. In a new study, researchers found that when people wrote down their thoughts on a piece of paper and then threw the paper away, they mentally discarded the thoughts as well.
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The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed a concept for roadway illumination called "Ecoluminance" which incorporates roadside vegetation with low-level pedestrian and landscape lighting, retroreflective markers, and light-emitting diode (LED) road and walkway illumination.
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Effort to solve questions on protein folding created field of protein physical science that has led to major scientific advances.
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In the new Thinking Matters course 'The Science of MythBusters,' Stanford freshmen learn the scientific method by studying exploding chicken manure and the mathematical probabilities of winning game shows.
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Shirley Tilghman vividly remembers the science experiment that changed her life. As a child, the distinguished molecular biologist and Princeton University president loved math and solving puzzles, but it was in college that she had her “aha” moment in a lab.
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Scotch tape, a versatile household staple and a mainstay of holiday gift-wrapping, may have a new scientific application as a shape-changing "smart material"
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Nanofibers have a dizzying range of possible applications, but they’ve been prohibitively expensive to make. MIT researchers hope to change that.
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To support a new industry-friendly research strategy, the Georgia Institute of Technology announces the launch of an interdisciplinary research institute to promote a technologically advanced and globally competitive manufacturing base in the United States.
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Born during the Great Depression, Daniel Hillel moved to Palestine as a child and settled with his family on a kibbutz, where he learned firsthand the difficulty of rehabilitating degraded land. It was there, in the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel, that he first became enthralled with farming.
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Scientists today are describing a revolutionary new way to use sunlight to produce steam and other vapors without heating an entire container of fluid to the boiling point.
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