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  1. Materials Science

    Crystal Clear: Liquid crystal sensor plays nature’s game

    By fixing the components of a cell membrane to a liquid crystal, researchers devised a sensitive and high-speed sensor for detecting chemical and biowarfare agents.

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  2. Earth

    Ash Clouds: Severe storms can lift smoke into stratosphere

    New field observations, satellite images, and computer models suggest that a severe thunderstorm, enhanced by heat from forest fires, can boost soot, smoke, and other particles as far as the lower stratosphere, an unexpected phenomenon.

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  3. Earth

    Ash Clouds: Severe storms can lift smoke into stratosphere

    New field observations, satellite images, and computer models suggest that a severe thunderstorm, enhanced by heat from forest fires, can boost soot, smoke, and other particles as far as the lower stratosphere, an unexpected phenomenon.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Cardiac Connection: Lupus patients exhibit signs of heart disease

    Lupus patients have more signs of atherosclerosis than do healthy people, suggesting that the inflammation that causes many lupus symptoms also damages blood vessels.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Cardiac Connection: Lupus patients exhibit signs of heart disease

    Lupus patients have more signs of atherosclerosis than do healthy people, suggesting that the inflammation that causes many lupus symptoms also damages blood vessels.

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  6. Astronomy

    Cool Cosmos: Orbiting telescope views infrared universe

    Astronomers unveiled the first images and spectra taken by the most sensitive and highest-resolution infrared observatory ever sent into space.

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  7. Astronomy

    Cool Cosmos: Orbiting telescope views infrared universe

    Astronomers unveiled the first images and spectra taken by the most sensitive and highest-resolution infrared observatory ever sent into space.

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  8. Materials Science

    New materials take the heat

    Researchers have devised a way to prevent an innovative solar cell material from degrading under high temperatures and prolonged exposure to light.

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  9. Materials Science

    New materials take the heat

    Researchers have devised a way to prevent an innovative solar cell material from degrading under high temperatures and prolonged exposure to light.

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  10. Materials Science

    Drug particle delivers insulin on demand

    Injectable polymer nanoparticles could store insulin in the body over several days and release the medication precisely when blood sugar concentrations change.

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  11. Materials Science

    Drug particle delivers insulin on demand

    Injectable polymer nanoparticles could store insulin in the body over several days and release the medication precisely when blood sugar concentrations change.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Hard mattresses not best for back pain

    People sleeping on medium-firm mattresses report less pain than those sleeping on firm mattresses, contradicting a long-held belief that harder is better.

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