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  Research shows graphene forms electrically charged crinkles

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  Researchers from Brown University have discovered another peculiar and potentially useful property of graphene, one-atom-thick sheets of carbon, that could be useful in guiding nanoscale self-assembly or in analyzing DNA ...

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  A Fox code for the face

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  In the developing face, how do stem cells know whether to become cartilage, bones or teeth? To begin to answer this question, scientists from the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Gage Crump tested the role of a key family of genes, ...

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  DNA drives design principles for lighter, thinner optical displays

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  DNA is certainly the basis of life. Soon it might also be the basis of your electronic devices.

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  Researchers develop synthetic T cells that mimic form, function of human version

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  UCLA researchers have developed synthetic T lymphocytes, or T cells, that are near-perfect facsimiles of human T cells.

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  Geoscientists offer new evidence for how the Adirondack Mountains formed

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  The formation mechanism of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York has long posed a geologic mystery, say seismology researchers at the nearby University of Massachusetts Amherst. A few have been proposed, but until ...

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  Baboons shed light on antimicrobial resistance

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  Antibiotic resistance is an ancient feature of gut microbial communities and sharing habitat with humans has had an important impact on the structure and function of gut microbiota of non-human primates, according to a study ...

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  New tech improves ability to reflect sound back to its source

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  Researchers have developed a device that reflects sound in the direction it came from, rather than deflecting it at an angle. The "retroreflector" can reflect sound across an operating range of 70 degrees in either direction—more ...

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  Most accurate picture of Zika yet creates potential for therapeutics

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  Researchers have created the most accurate picture of Zika to date, finding probable drug-binding pockets on the surface of the virus and paving the way for vaccine design.

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  Tropical 'banana eater' birds lived in North America 52 million years ago

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  A fossil of an ancestor of modern tropical birds has been found in North America, proving they also used to live in the Northern Hemisphere, say scientists at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath.

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  Twisted meta-molecules as they really are

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  Physicists at the University of Bath have devised a new and highly sensitive method to truly test the chirality of a material, eliminating the risk of false positives from competing effects.