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Laser cavities take on new shapes and functionalities

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Mantis shrimp-inspired camera enables glimpse into hidden world

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Study shows how rough microparticles can cause big problems

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Chemistry provides a new supply of a promising cancer and HIV treatment

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New software speeds origami structure designs

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Beyond EPA's Clean Power decision: Climate action window could close as early as 2023

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Injecting electrons jolts 2-D structure into new atomic pattern

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NSF awards $5.3 million in 59 grants to study effects of recent hurricanes

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Fruit fly muscles with a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutation don't relax properly

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New methods tackle a perplexing engineering concept

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Columbia engineers invent breakthrough millimeter-wave circulator IC

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Smart bandage could promote better, faster healing

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Nanoscale islands dot light-driven catalyst

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Researchers demonstrate engineering approach to combine drugs, control parasitic worms

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Bioreactors on a chip renew promises for algal biofuels

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Smart molecules trigger white blood cells to become better cancer-eating machines

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Illinois researchers develop gene circuit design strategy to advance synthetic biology

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Football helmet smartfoam signals potential concussions in real time

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A new kind of influenza vaccine: One shot might do the trick

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Scientists make atoms-thick Post-It notes for solar cells and circuits

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NSF awards $36.6 million in new food-energy-water system grants

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Changes in nonextreme precipitation may have not-so-subtle consequences

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Sound waves separate biological nanoparticles for 'liquid biopsies'

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Generation Nano Challenge

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People of color exposed to more pollution from cars, trucks, power plants over 10 years

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Researchers develop spectroscopic 'science camera' system for smartphones

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Four new NSF Engineering Research Centers will advance US health, energy sustainability

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27 new NSF INCLUDES awards aim to enhance U.S. science and engineering enterprise

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First on-chip nanoscale optical quantum memory developed

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