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Archaeologist Lynn Swartz Dodd of USC College and her students are taking trade artifacts from Egypt to the Argonne National Laboratorys Advanced Photon Source, home of the most powerful X-rays in the country.
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On the subject of personality factors and success in science, here is a provocative essay by UK professor Bruce Charlton. He claims that the modern system selects for conscientiousness over raw intelligence, with negative consequences.
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A new 1.6 million scientific Centre of Excellence at the University of York will provide major benefits for the chemical, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, as well as supporting academic research in the region.
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Cornell University is the proud new home to a state-of-the-art Biofuels Research Laboratory, lauded as a unique research, educational and economic development facility rolled into one.
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Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology: An Overview of the Debates analyzes how the ethical issues raised by a variety of emerging technologies are often similar and familiar. The authors find that these similarities are abundant enough to justify developing an ethical framework that cuts across emerging and converging technologies.
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The project is an initiative of the Council of Graduate Schools, which seeks to help graduate students become more aware of the wide variety of issues in the ethical and responsible conduct of research.
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South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds paid a visit to UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab recently to get a feel for the type of research operation the campus and the lab plan to build at his state's famed Homestake gold mine.
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A new intensive laboratory class was unveiled for biochemistry students at Michigan State University this summer.
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Dunedin, FL - A custom-engineered spectrometer from Ocean Optics, part of the scientific payload on NASAs Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, was successfully launched into space Thursday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Hach Company and Accelerated Technology Laboratories Inc. (ATL) have announced a joint marketing, technology and customer migration partnership that will provide significant benefits to customers.
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The University of California, Los Angeles, has appealed findings of workplace safety violations issued by state regulators regarding the death of research assistant Sheharbano (Sheri) Sangji, who was burned in a laboratory fire there in December 2008.
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Based on current rates of growth and available technologies, renewable energysolar, wind, geothermal, and biomasscould provide 10% of U.S. electricity by 2020, according to a National Research Council report released June 15.
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