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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 to...
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New plant on its Mourenx, France site to produce a large volume commercial API.
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Just because a lizard can grow back its tail, doesn’t mean it will be exactly the same.
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A University of Michigan biophysical chemist and his colleagues have discovered the smallest and fastest-known molecular switches made of RNA, the chemical cousin of DNA.
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The CERN Director-General, Rolf Heuer, and the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, George Demosthenous, today signed an agreement under which the Republic of Cyprus will become an Associate Member State in the pre-stage to Membership.
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It takes between 10 and 20 years to develop a new material—an advanced metal alloy, for example, that can be used in lighter cars, trucks and airplanes.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced nearly $15 million in new big data fundamental research projects.
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Life Technologies (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced the acquisition of Compendia Bioscience, a preeminent cancer bioinformatics company widely used by the pharmaceutical industry to identify novel gene targets for drug discovery and development.
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As part of ongoing research to help prevent and mitigate disruptions to computer networks on the Internet, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California have turned their attention to smartphones and other hand-held computing devices.
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The winners of a contest that encourages scientists and students across the globe to explore fundamental, big questions in astronomy and cosmology will present their proposals and essays in a joint conference Oct. 12-13 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
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MABEL bipedal robot, a novel ultralight metal, and an "around-the-corner" camera are NSF-supported technologies.
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Findings challenge current models of long-term carbon storage in lakes and rivers.
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