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Credit: UTA The American Physical Society has awarded Benjamin Jones, assistant professor of Physics at The University of Texas at ...

Credit: Ken Olsen A new study in the April 3 issue of Nature Genetics describes an ancestry.com-type adventure that reveals ...

A new study from North Carolina State University finds a significant shortfall in the amount of "refuge" cropland being planted ...

Credit: Norbury Estate A major new decade-long experiment by scientists at the University of Birmingham to study the impact of ...

The Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI), a Yale-based program that makes the latest tools and research in forest restoration ...

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Climate scientists at the Met Office Hadley Centre have shown that the early mitigation needed to limit eventual warming below ...

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Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much sought-after development of making ...

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ORLANDO--An artificial pancreas, which delivers insulin in an automated way to individuals with type 1 diabetes, appears to be safe ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Implantable fibers have been an enormous boon to brain research, allowing scientists to stimulate specific targets in ...

A new research report in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology involving mice shows that antibiotic use very early in life ...

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