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Torrance, CA (August 22, 2012) - Phenomenex Inc., a global leader in the research and manufacture of advanced technologies for the separation sciences, announces the creation of a new company - Phenova, Inc. - which culminates the integration and
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Researchers have developed a self-charging power cell that directly converts mechanical energy to chemical energy, storing the power until it is released as electrical current.
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Many marine species will be harmed or won't survive if the levels of carbon dioxide continue to increase.
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Fueling nuclear reactors with uranium harvested from the ocean could become more feasible because of a material developed by a team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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In the world of proteins, form defines function. Based on interactions between their constituent amino acids, proteins form specific conformations, folding and twisting into distinct, chemically directed shapes...
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India has numerous healthcare problems, ranging from inadequate policy monitoring to the widespread lack of health insurance, but a potentially huge, unsaturated market will see the country’s pharmaceutical industry continue to expand rapidly.
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New insights gained on how lasers generate ions in dense plasmas.
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An economically feasible way to store solar energy in existing residential power networks is the subject of an award winning paper written by two Virginia Tech electrical engineers and presented at an international conference.
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Research into the genetic factors behind certain disease mechanisms, illness progression and response to new drugs is frequently carried out using tiny multi-cellular animals such as nematodes, fruit flies or zebra fish.
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Food waste could become key ingredient for making a variety of everyday products
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Researchers have long known that people are very frequently overconfident – that they tend to believe they are more physically talented, socially adept, and skilled at their job than they actually are.
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A field of young sunflowers will slowly rotate from east to west during the course of a sunny day, each leaf seeking out as much sunlight as possible as the sun moves across the sky through an adaptation called heliotropism....
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