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In an advance toward preventing car windshields and eyeglasses from fogging up, researchers in China are reporting development of a new way to make raspberry-shaped nanoparticles that can give glass a permanent antifogging coating.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) made its first major award under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to construct the Alaska Region Research Vessel (ARRV).
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the N.Y. State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) have agreed on a final cleanup action (called a remedy) for the inactive High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
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U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory scientist Tiffany Santos has been awarded a L'Oreal USA Fellowship for Women in Science for her work in materials science at the Center for Nanoscale Materials.
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Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. has joined the Microsoft BioIT Alliance, which brings together pharmaceutical, biotechnology, hardware and software industries to explore new ways to share complex biomedical data and collaborate among multi-disciplinary teams.
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Concerned a brain drain could hurt its long-term ability to compete, Google Inc. is tackling the problem with its typical tool: An algorithm. The Internet search giant recently began crunching data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories in a mathematical formula Google says can identify which of its 20,000 employees are most likely to quit.
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National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Arden L. Bement, Jr. recently presented the agency's proposed $7.045 billion budget for fiscal year (FY) 2010, an 8.5 percent increase over its planned expenditures for FY 2009. The additional $555 million would increase funding for major investments in the scientific infrastructure, research endeavors and human capital.
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Fast, easy navigation and solutions orientation enable site visitors to quickly find hazardous material storage information and building solutions.
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Perkins+Will has launched the 2030 e2 Energy Estimating Tool. This free online tool was created to assist Perkins+Wills 1500 designers in designing buildings to achieve the 2030 challenge.
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Milestone no cost webinar event will discuss how to prepare your laboratory for the highest quality trace metal data with the use of your ICP/ICP-MS instrumentation.
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The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) has announced that an agreement has been reached to begin a partnership with MipTec a European conference and exhibition.
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