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Put steel under a powerful microscope, revealing its microstructure, and prepare to be surprised. Known for its strength, the metal will appear pitted and pocked. The pitting is cause for concern for industry because it can progress and lead to corrosion. But Carolyn Aita, Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Engineering, can help.
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The most advanced and powerful electron microscope on the planetcapable of unprecedented resolutionhas been installed in the new Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster University.
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The implementation of a compliant Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for the QC/QA laboratory environment is often victimized by "scope creep," with costs rising 2 to 5 times above originals estimates. But a new white paper examines an alternative "Thin LIMS" strategy that promises to cut the technical resources and costs required for deployment in half.
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University of Iowa graduate student Alok Shah spends many hours in the lab studying the genetic causes of developmental defects and cystic fibrosis. In his free time, he takes part in what he calls a "wonderful nerd-fest" at "LabSpaces," a social-networking site aimed at individuals with a specific interest or career focus, such as biomedical research.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded funding to the Georgia Institute of Technology to create a new Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)- The Georgia Tech Laboratory for New Electronic Materials. The Laboratory will focus its efforts on the development of new materials to serve as the successors to silicon in the semiconductor industry.
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The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $20 million to the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, an interdisciplinary research program dedicated to improving and developing materials for uses ranging from alternative energy production to quantum computing.
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Indiana University and Purdue University may be oil and water when it comes to athletics, but thanks to an effort to foster life sciences research and partnerships throughout Indiana, they're more like Indiana corn and butter.
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It's Cinderella time for solar. And a German company is playing fairy godmother.
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Chemists at Oregon State University have developed a new organocatalyst that will play a major role in new drug development.
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To gauge demand for lab automation, bioMerieux, Inc. conducted a survey during the recent AACC meeting. More than 75 percent of respondents said they planned to add new microbiology lab automation solutions to their laboratories within the next year.
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A new, multi-institutional research center combining the tools of chemistry and astronomy, to be headquartered at the University of Virginia, will use the unique laboratory of interstellar space to free the study of basic chemistry from the restrictive bonds of Earth.
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Candidates answer questions about innovation, climate change, energy, education, national security, pandemics and biosecurity, genetics, stem cells, ocean health, water, space, scientific integrity, research, and health.
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