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"Nebraska Ice" Leads to Three More Discoveries

December 12, 2012

"Nebraska Ice" is the discovery that just keeps on giving for chemist Xiao Cheng Zeng and his research team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The article details three separate discoveries made in a series of computer experiments. Full Story

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