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Your Brain Is Always Listening

Your brain is always at work, whether you are consciously listening or not.

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Smart Streetscapes

How could a smarter street improve your life? "Smart Streetscapes," a new NSF ERC.

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Carbon Negative Cement

The manufacture of cement contributes up to 8% of global CO2 emissions.

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What Weddell Seal Moms Sacrifice

What makes Weddell seals such excellent divers?

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What Weddell Seal Moms Sacrifice

What makes Weddell seals such excellent divers, able to forage underwater for food for as long as...

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Did Shipwrecked Horses Survive?

Folklore about a shipwrecked Spanish galleon comes to light in the oldest sequenced DNA ever found.

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Infant Word Association

Babies are like sponges constantly absorbing information. One vital component is learning a language

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Shedding New Light on Dark Matter

What is "Cosmic Microwave Background?"

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Brightest Fluorescents Ever Made

What makes the images on television screens, hand-held video games, and smartphones so dynamic?

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A Mega Predator of Predators

Explore with us the largest marine predator that has ever existed,

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A Mega Predator Of Predators

While others focus on today’s sharks, explore with us the largest marine predator that has ever...

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Protective Food Packaging

Researchers adapted technology to develop a food packaging system that is biodegradable

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Brightest Fluorescents Ever Made

What makes the images on television screens, hand-held video games, and smartphones so dynamic?

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Neutron Star May Be Devouring Companion

There are two dozen Black Widows in the Milky Way. But what is a Black Widow and why does a neutron

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No Sunscreen for Corals

Six thousand tons of sunscreen wash through U.S. coral reefs every year.

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No Sunscreen for Corals

Six thousand tons of sunscreen wash through U.S. coral reefs every year.

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Bone Therapy

What is 3D bioprinting? It’s been used to print living human tissue, but what else could it create

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Bone Therapy

What is 3D bioprinting? It’s been used to print living human tissue, but what else could it create

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DFV-Fish on the menu

Fish habitats are in fluctuation.

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Fish on the Menu?

As marine ecosystems change with warming ocean temperatures, will seafood still be on the menu.

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Brains in Space

The harsh environment of space poses serious physical challenges on our bodies.

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Brains in Space

The infinite adventure of space travel has us reaching for the stars, but the harsh environment of..

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Upcycling with Sunlight

Researchers are using the power of the sun to upcycle plastic waste.

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Enhancing AI Diagnosis

Researchers are working to improve radiologists’ interpretation of AI data.

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Making Biopsies Obsolete

A team of researchers have developed a high-speed, 3D microscope, called MediSCAPE.

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Making Biopsies Obsolete

What if invasive biopsies were a thing of the past?

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Crowdsourcing Research

“Citizen Scientists” have helped researchers document how coyotes and small gray foxes have foun

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Future Pollen Forecasts!

By the end of this century, Spring pollen emissions could begin 40 days earlier.

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What's in the Wind?

Researchers have learned the human impact on climate change can play a major role in wildfires.

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Earth Trojan Asteroids!

Like the Trojan Horse of Greek mythology, Earth Trojan Asteroids also hold secrets!

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