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Video: The New Arctic
What will life look like, for humans and animals, as the Arctic ice cover diminishes?
Lecture: The Future of Diagnosis Lies Within
Andy Ellington peers into the future of low-cost, personalized diagnostics.
Texas Longhorn Genome Decoded
Texas Longhorn cattle have a hybrid global ancestry, according to a study by University of Texas at Austin researchers published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Chemist Fights a Very Personal War on Cancer
Chemist Jonathan Sessler, a cancer survivor, joins with a colleague from MD Anderson to develop a better drug for ovarian cancer.
Video: The Beauty and Benefits of Science
William Press, outgoing president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, reflects on “the beauty and benefits of science,” the theme he chose for his presidential address at the association’s recent conference.
C. Grant Willson Wins Japan Prize
Chemist is recognized for development of a process that is now used to manufacture nearly all of the microprocessors and memory chips in the world.
Chemistry Major Wade Wang Is Helping to Build a Better Microchip
Chemistry major Wade Wang is part of the decades-long, global project to the keep the size of transistors shrinking.
Engineered Immune Cells Resist Infection from HIV and Could Ultimately Replace Drug Therapy
Researchers cut and pasted a series of HIV-resistant genes into T cells, specialized immune cells targeted by the virus.
Socially Isolated Rats are More Vulnerable to Addiction, Report Researchers
Social isolation during a key period of adolescence increases vulnerability to addiction as well as the difficulty of extinguishing it.
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