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  A Simple Way to Help Cities Monitor Traffic More Accurately

  August 7, 2012 — New software helps in-road traffic detectors count cars more accurately -- and save city planners ... > full story
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  New Chemical Sensor Makes Finding Landmines and Buried IEDs Easier

  August 2, 2012 — A new chemical sensing system is believed to be the first of its kind capable of detecting vapors from buried landmines and other explosive devices with the naked eye rather than advanced scientific ... > full story
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  Controlling Gene Expression With Hydrogen Peroxide 'Switches'

  August 1, 2012 — Hydrogen peroxide doesn't just come in bottles from the drugstore – the human body makes it as well. Now researchers have found a way to use naturally occurring hydrogen peroxide inside cells ... > full story
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  'Diving Board' Sensors Key to DNA Detection

  July 27, 2012 — A tiny vibrating cantilever sensor could soon help doctors and field clinicians quickly detect harmful toxins, bacteria and even indicators of certain types of cancer from small samples of blood or ... > full story
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  Progress in Search for Neutrino-Less Double-Beta Decay of Xenon-136

  July 19, 2012 — Physicists recently reported results of an experiment conducted in a salt mine one-half mile under Carlsbad, N.M., part of a decades-long search for evidence of the elusive neutrino-less double-beta ... > full story
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  First Photo of Shadow of Single Atom

  July 3, 2012 — Scientists have captured the first image of the shadow of a single atom. They trapped single atomic ions of the element ytterbium and exposed them to a specific frequency of light. Under this light ... > full story
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  Bugs Inspire Better X-Rays: Nanostructures Modeled Like Moth Eyes May Boost Medical Imaging

  July 3, 2012 — Using the compound eyes of the humble moth as their inspiration, physicists have developed new nanoscale materials that could someday reduce the radiation dosages received by patients getting ... > full story
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  NuSTAR Space Telescope Opens Its X-Ray Eyes

  June 28, 2012 — NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has snapped its first test images of the sizzling high-energy X-ray universe. The observatory, launched June 13, is the first space telescope ... > full story
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  Understanding What's Up With the Higgs Boson at the Large Hadron Collider

  June 28, 2012 — CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, will hold a seminar early in the morning on July 4 to announce the latest results from ATLAS and CMS, two ... > full story

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  A SMART(er) Way to Track Influenza

  June 11, 2012 — Researchers have created a reliable and fast flu-detection test that can be carried in a first-aid kit. The novel prototype device isolates influenza RNA using a combination of magnetics and ... > full story

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