When Jeanne Johnson lived in New Orleans, she figured out how to weather hurricanes. When the family moved to Kansas City, she taught her kids to take cover from tornadoes. So when Johnson recent bought a house on Washington ...
Engineering
Feb 17, 2017
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Humans have long had a knack for concentrating heavy metals that would otherwise remain at low concentrations within the environment. These human-produced pollutants can be found going back as far as one million years ago ...
Ecology
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The launch pad used to send Americans to the moon and shuttle astronauts into orbit is roaring back into action.
Space Exploration
Feb 17, 2017
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Many of the secrets of cancer and other diseases lie in the cell's nucleus. But getting way down to that level—to see and investigate the important genetic material housed there—requires creative thinking and extremely ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 17, 2017
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A new supercomputer in the top coal-mining state has begun critical climate-change research with support from even some global warming doubters, but scientists worry President Donald Trump could cut funding for such programs.
Environment
Feb 17, 2017
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Hens that do not produce their own chicks have been developed for use as surrogates to lay eggs from rare breeds.
Biotechnology
Feb 17, 2017
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New DNA-based research provides compelling evidence that a group of strange-looking fish living near the mouth of the Congo River are evolving due to the intense hydraulics of the river's rapids and deep canyons. The study, ...
Ecology
Feb 17, 2017
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Capitalizing on previous studies in self-powered chemo-mechanical movement, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering and Penn State University's Department of Chemistry have developed a ...
Materials Science
Feb 17, 2017
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The gig: David Glickman, 51, is co-founder and chief executive of Ultra Mobile, a prepaid mobile carrier that provides low-cost, no-contract SIM cards with a focus on immigrants living in the U.S. The company, headquartered ...
Business
Feb 17, 2017
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Finding new functional materials is always tricky. But searching for very specific properties among a relatively small family of known materials is even more difficult.
Condensed Matter
Feb 17, 2017
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