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The explosive PETN has been around for a century and is used by everyone from miners to the military, but it took new research by Sandia National Laboratories to begin to discover key mechanisms behind what causes it to fail at small scales.
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Getting a head start on stopping soil copper buildup will now be a bit easier, thanks to studies by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new computational method for identifying candidate refrigerant fluids with low "global warming potential."
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Single-celled algae and nitrogen-fixing bacteria help fertilize the oceans.
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Full data collection to be complete by end of 2012, agency prioritizes further assessment to provide scientific basis for additional recommendations.
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An electronic tag designed at the University of Washington can for the first time see when birds meet in the wild.
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A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Ho Nyung Lee has discovered a strain relaxation phenomenon in cobaltites that has eluded researchers for decades.
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Camptothecin analog FL118 shown to inhibit production of key cancer survival genes.
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Global climate change means that recently discovered ancient forests in Canada's extreme north could one day return, according to Alexandre Guertin-Pasquier of the University of Montreal's Department of Geography.
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With the combined power of NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes as well as a cosmic magnification effect, a team of astronomers led by Wei Zheng of The Johns Hopkins University has spotted what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen.
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Shoppers—particularly women—who take the time to read food labels are thinner than those who don’t, a new study has found.
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UT Dallas computer scientists have developed a technique to automatically allow one computer in a virtual network to monitor another for intrusions, viruses or anything else that could cause a computer to malfunction.
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