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Among science’s “final frontiers,” one of the most difficult to cross has been looking into the molecular-level workings of living cells. Now, a University of Massachusetts Amherst physicist has built an instrument to do just that a
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Cilas Particle Size announces a new Image Analysis System for all our particle size analyzers. This new imaging system has the ability to directly link the particle size distribution data from the laser diffraction analyzer with results acquired usin
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 9, 2011 – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced a new Cary 60 UV-Vis, the leader in xenon flash lamp technology, with improved performance, ease-of-use and sample handling. Supporting a multitude of appli
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Waters Introduces SYNAPT G2-S Mass Spectrometer, Combining Revolutionary StepWave Ion Optics With Ion Mobility Technology Taking Performance to New Level New High Definition Mass Spectrometer Gives Researchers the Most Sensitive and Selective Dis
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As it turns out, humans aren't the only organisms that turn to caffeine for a pick-me-up. University of Iowa scientists have identified four different bacteria that actually can live on caffeine. One of them, known as Pseudomonas putida CBB5, was fo
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New forms of carbon break the record of density and predicted to possess tunable electronic properties Stony Brook University graduate student Qiang Zhu, together with Professor of Geosciences and Physics, Artem R. Oganov, postdoc Andriy O. Lyakh
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Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a desktop genome analyzer and browser that allows biologists to rapidly and easily analyze and process their high-throughput data. The open-source software, called
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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin joined officials from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago at a groundbreaking event Friday, June 3, for a new Energy Sciences Building at Argonne. "I envision a
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Registration in advance of the conference ends Friday, June 10 for the 15th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, in partnership with the 5th International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, June 21-23, 2011. On-si
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At the White House today, President Barack Obama met in the Oval Office with the seven U.S. recipients of the 2010 Kavli Prizes to recognize and honor their seminal contributions to the three fields for which the Prizes are awarded -- astrophysics, n
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Neutron analysis of the atomic dynamics behind thermal conductivity is helping scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory gain a deeper understanding of how thermoelectric materials work. The analysis could spur the de
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, June 5, 2011- In 2030, when you plug in your toaster, car or smart phone, where will the electricity come from? Or, will the electrons be there at all? In the midst of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster and as sum
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