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The direct oxidation of methane—found in natural gas—into methanol at low temperatures has long been a holy grail. Now, researchers at Tufts have found a breakthrough way to accomplish the feat using a heterogeneous catalyst and cheap molecular oxygen.
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Researchers from Northwestern University brought a mummy to Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source for an all-day x-ray scattering experiment to probe the materials and objects, while leaving the mummy and her wrappings intact.
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Researchers at Cornell University are developing a system to enable teams of robots to share information as they move around and, if necessary, get help in interpreting what they see, enabling them to conduct surveillance as a single entity with many eyes.
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program announced recently that William G. Rodriguez-Reillo, a graduate student in organismic and evolutionary biology, will be spending three to 12 months working in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Wash., to conduct part of his doctoral dissertation work.
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By analyzing such parameters as the force applied by key presses and the time interval between them, a new self-powered non-mechanical intelligent keyboard developed by researchers at Georgia Tech could provide a stronger layer of security for computer users.
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Researchers at the University of Connecticut have made an experimental breakthrough in explaining a rare property of an exotic magnetic material, potentially opening a path to a host of new technologies
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Four Iowa State physicists and their team of postdoctoral research associates and graduate students are ready for some new data from the second run of the 17-miles-around collider near Geneva, Switzerland.
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The holder of the Wallenberg-Bienenstock Professorship will have a joint appointment on the faculties of SLAC and a Stanford science or engineering department. The professorship honors Bienenstock for his efforts to strengthen ties between Stanford and Swedish universities.
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New research from Carnegie Mellon chemists has revealed that tiny, synthetic gold nanoparticles exhibit some of nature’s most intricate patterns.
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As the Large Hadron Collider commences its second run, University of California Santa Barbara researchers ready themselves again to reverse engineer the universe.
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Several UC Riverside physicists are involved in research using one of the four particle detectors at the collider.
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Scientists from the Northern Illinois University physics department are preparing to join thousands of their international colleagues to study the highest-energy particle collisions ever achieved in the laboratory.
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