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EPA has finalized the Academic Laboratory rule to provide increased regulatory flexibility, while enhancing safe management of hazardous waste.
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SunEthanol, a spinoff company from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has raised $25 million in financing and is changing its name to Qteros, which refers to its Q Microbe technology for producing sustainable liquid fuel from non-food plants and wastes.
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San Diego philanthropist John J. Moores has contributed $2.1 million to The Scripps Research Institute's new $50 million initiative to recruit world-class researchers and sustain and expand current research efforts at the La Jolla, CA- and Palm Beach County, FL-based biomedical organization.
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One hundred safety leaders from around North America gathered in San Francisco, CA last month to attend the third annual DBO2 User Summit, and to define how industry will look at and measure safety in the future.
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Dr. Philip J. Wyatt, CEO and founder of Wyatt Technology Corporation, has been awarded the 2009 Prize for Industrial Application of Physics by the American Physical Society (APS).
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A pair of Endeavour-carried cryogenic freezers will boost the biological research capacity of the shuttle and the International Space Station.
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Relationships between scientists and the news media have evolved tremendously over the past 25 years, and scientists should continue to improve communications with both the media and the lay public.
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The latest upgrade to the Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer at the Department of Energys (DOEs) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has increased the system's computing power to a peak 1.64 petaflops, or quadrillion mathematical calculations per second.
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Nikon's small world recognizes excellence in photography through the light microscope.
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications after operating for more than five months.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's new center will conduct unprecedented research on biochemical solar technology.
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A teaspoon of dirt contains an estimated 10,000 species of bacteria, but its only one percent of these microbial bugs that have brought us antibiotics, anticancer agents and other useful drugs.
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