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Atmospheric pressure impacts greenhouse gas emissions from leaky oil and gas wells
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Creatine powers T cells’ fight against cancer
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Development and analytical validation of a next-generation sequencing based microsatellite instabili
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NASA-NOAA satellite observes development of Tropical Storm Octave
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NIH funds new All of Us Research Program genome center to test advanced sequencing tools
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Deep learning method that transforms shapes to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia
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Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Research Award 2019 goes to Serena Nik-Zainal
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Potato as effective as carbohydrate gels for boosting athletic performance, study finds
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Dr. Denis Mukwege honorary doctor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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Why modified carbon nanotubes can help the reproducibility problem
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Candidate Ebola vaccine still effective when highly diluted, macaque study finds
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A new stable form of plutonium discovered at the ESRF
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This blacksmith forged a sword using chemistry (video)
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Lifestyle is a threat to gut bacteria: Ötzi proves it
A study that was published today in Cell Host & Microbe explored for the first time the variation and evolution...
All plastic waste could become new, high-quality plastic through advanced steam cracking
Credit: Illustration: Boid A research group at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed an efficient process for breaking down...
Ugandans and Kenyans in cities happy to pay for food that is more nutritious
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Genes linked to sex ratio and male fertility in mice
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Bean tree plan to protect Amazon
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New polysomnography electrode set enables easy at-home assessment of sleep bruxism
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