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Long before the age of freeways and parking lots, Babylonians used a naturally occurring asphalt to reinforce their roads.....
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UCLA researchers have developed a novel system to measure communication between stem cell–derived motor neurons and muscle cells in a Petri dish.
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Accessibility of electron microscopes could make technique standard practice.
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The American College of Radiology’s (ACR) Radiology Leadership Institute™ (RLI) — radiology’s most comprehensive professional development and leadership academy — is now open for enrollment.
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Is there a new path to biofuels hiding in a handful of dirt? Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) biologist Steve Singer leads a group that wants to find out.
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Provides greater flexibility for development of sterility test methods.
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A new publishing agreement supports the Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies (ACSESS) mission to provide high quality publication management and marketing to nonprofit scientific societies.
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Creators of a nanotech-based system that captures carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere within a submarine have won the Federal Laboratory Consortium Interagency Partnership Award for 2012.
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has announced a 10-week computational science program to provide a limited number of undergraduate students with paid, hands-on experience using Gordon, the center’s new data-intensive supercomputer.
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Over the past several decades, scientists have faced challenges in developing new antibiotics even as bacteria have become increasingly resistant to existing drugs.
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New device could bring quantum computing to your home.
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Spiders weave a web even more tangled than originally thought – at least on the nanoscale level, according to a new study performed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.
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