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Seven years ago, physics professor Latika Mennon’s first graduate student said he wanted to “change the world.”
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To solve the very big ecological and economic problems caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of researchers is thinking very small.
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Proteins are able to self-assemble into a wide range of highly ordered structures that feature a diverse array of properties. Through biomimicry – technological innovation inspired by nature – humans hope to emulate proteins and produce our own version of self-assembling molecules.
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Environmental monitoring of operations at both the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) main site, as well as Site 300, the Laboratory's experimental test site near Tracy in 2011, indicates no adverse impact to public health or the environment from Laboratory operations.
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Leadership Computing Facilities (LCFs) have awarded a combined 4.7 billion supercomputing core hours to 61 science and engineering projects with high potential for accelerating discovery and innovation through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.
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U-M Launches $9M Effort to Strengthen Great Lakes Restoration While Advancing Research and Education
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Weaning America off fossil fuels and investing in renewable energy is the best path for the future, say Stanford researchers.
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New research published in the prestigious journal Science reveals Jurassic Park's depiction of these bird-mimic dinosaurs is not entirely accurate — the ornithomimids, as they are scientifically known, should have had feathers and wings.
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In the event that a giant asteroid is headed toward Earth, you’d better hope that it’s blindingly white. A pale asteroid would reflect sunlight — and over time, this bouncing of photons off its surface could create enough of a force to push the asteroid off its course.
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"Avalanches" -- the crackling behavior of materials under slowly increasing stress, like crumpling paper or earthquakes -- may have a novel facet previously unknown, say Cornell researchers.
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The Pittcon Organizing Committee has recently announced the topics for Conferee Networking to be held at Pittcon 2013, which will be in Philadelphia, PA, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from March 17-21, 2013.
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