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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will launch a long-term study tracking how an entirely new reef ecosystem develops on ...

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For many years, designing synthetic polymer systems has been inspired by the hierarchical self-assembly of folded proteins ...

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A lead scientist takes you inside the Texas Petawatt at UT Austin, where hours of careful alignment and safety checks build ...