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Extremely close look at electron advances frontiers in particle physics

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NSF Prize Competitions

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Biomaterials with 'Frankenstein proteins' help heal tissue

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Oldest evidence for animals found by UCR researchers

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Stanford study traces hospital-acquired bloodstream infections to patients' own bodies

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Tracking the movement of the tropics 800 years into the past

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Study exposes security vulnerabilities in terahertz data links

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STEM Sante Fe: Expanding Your Horizons Conference

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Businesses spent $375 billion on R&D performance in US in 2016

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Classifying microbes differently leads to discovery

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A new way to create molecules for drug development

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Little supernova is big discovery: The origin of binary neutron stars

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How magma climbs the crustal ladder between eruptions

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Dying star emits a whisper

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Fake or real? New UC Davis study finds consumers wary of manipulated photos

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Clemson University breakthrough in self-healing materials detailed in journal Science

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Disorder induces topological Anderson insulator

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Human retinas grown in a dish explain how color vision develops

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Volcano researcher learns how Earth builds supereruption-feeding magma systems

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Record-setting scientist calls South Pole an ‘absolutely amazing place’

Discovery

2018-2019 NSF Distinguished Lectures in Mathematical and Physical Sciences

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Statement on the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018

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Microfluidic molecular exchanger helps control therapeutic cell manufacturing

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'Fudge factors' in physics?

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Molecular details of protein reveal glimpse into how kidney stones form

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Newly described fossils could help reveal why some dinos got so big

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Prescience: Helping doctors predict the future

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Testing new drugs with 'ALS-on-a-chip'

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