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Reverse-engineering the fireworks of life

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Stable, strongly magnetized plasma jet created in laboratory

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Research on repetitive worm behavior has implications for understanding human diseases

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LIGO and Virgo detect neutron star smash-ups

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Upgraded LIGO to search for universe's most extreme events

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Expert panel to discuss next generation gravitational wave detector

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NSF announces new measures to protect research community from harassment

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LIGO: Einstein Was Right

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Important Information for FY18

8 ways the National Science Foundation supports our troops

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After the lecture: Physicist Anthony Leggett

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Earth's weird and wonderful animal models

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After the Lecture: Hendrik Schatz

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Be a (citizen) scientist!

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Video series: New strategies address one of science's greatest mysteries

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Nuclear physics technique helps companies detect dangerous compound

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Precious time

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Combing frequencies

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On the road to ubiquity

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After the lecture: Extra dimensions, interacting dark matter, and the power of uncertainty

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Smaller and cheaper particle accelerators?

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Science powerhouses unite to help search for gravitational waves

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'Blockbuster' science images

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Everything is better in 3-D

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Cosmic slurp

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Catching the Fever

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NSF-funded researchers describe their cutting-edge brain research

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Scientists apply biological behavior to human engineering

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Putting quarks on a virtual scale

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Desert dwellers and 'bots reveal physics of movement

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