Another former employee sues Google over issues of diversity
Another former Google employee is suing the tech company over issues of diversity.
Business
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Modification of CRISPR guide RNA structure prevents immune response in target cells
CRISPR-mediated genome editing has become a powerful tool for modeling of disease in various organisms and is being developed for clinical applications. Preassembled Cas9 ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) composed of the recombinant ...
Biotechnology
Feb 22, 2018
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Extinct lakes of the American desert west
Boulder, Colo., USA: The vestiges of lakes long extinct dot the landscape of the American desert west. These fossilized landforms provide clues of how dynamic climate has been over the past few million years.
Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2018
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With computation, researchers identify promising solid oxide fuel cell materials
Using advanced computational methods, University of Wisconsin-Madison materials scientists have discovered new materials that could bring widespread commercial use of solid oxide fuel cells closer to reality.
Materials Science
Feb 22, 2018
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Imaging individual flexible DNA 'building blocks' in 3-D
Over the past decade, researchers have been working to create nanoscale materials and devices using DNA as construction materials through a process called "DNA origami."
Nanophysics
Feb 22, 2018
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Financial structure of early childhood education requires overhaul to make it accessible and affordable for all families
High-quality early care and education (ECE) is critical to positive child development and has the potential to generate economic returns, but the current financing structure of ECE leaves many children without access to high-quality ...
Social Sciences
Feb 22, 2018
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How spacecraft testing enabled bone marrow research
In the 1970s, a NASA employee stepped up to a challenge posed by the National Institutes of Health or NIH: to freeze bone marrow.
Space Exploration
Feb 22, 2018
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Moths in mud can uncover prehistoric secrets
Moth scales, preserved in the mud of a coniferous forest lake, have been used to identify outbreaks of these insects over the past 10,000 years. This groundbreaking new technique, reported in the open-access journal Frontiers ...
Environment
Feb 22, 2018
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Invasion of the body-snatching fungus
UConn researchers recently documented in Nature Scientific Reports a gory and fascinating relationship between periodical cicadas and a fungus that infects them, hijacks their behavior, and causes a scene straight out of ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 22, 2018
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Understanding the wetting of micro-textured surfaces can help give them new functionalities
The wetting and adhesion characteristics of solid surfaces critically depend on their fine structures. However, until now, our understanding of exactly how the sliding behaviour of liquid droplets depends on surface microstructures ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 22, 2018
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