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Stanford study finds promise in expanding renewables based on results in three major economies
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- Written by Terry Nagel
Stanford, California - Stanford energy experts have released a study that compares the experiences of three large economies in ramping up renewable energy deployment and concludes that renewables can make a major and increasingly cost-effective contribution to climate change mitigation.
Presidential Address to the Nation
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Washington, DC - Address to the Nation by President Barack Obama:
Reduced breathing capacity in kids linked to early pesticide exposure
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- Written by Sarah Yang
Berkeley, California - Taking a deep breath might be a bit harder for children exposed early in life to a widely used class of pesticides in agriculture, according to a new paper by UC Berkeley researchers.
Stretchable hydrogel electronics
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- Written by Jennifer Chu
Cambridge, Massachusetts - MIT engineers have designed what may be the Band-Aid of the future: a sticky, stretchy, gel-like material that can incorporate temperature sensors, LED lights, and other electronics, as well as tiny, drug-delivering reservoirs and channels. The “smart wound dressing” releases medicine in response to changes in skin temperature and can be designed to light up if, say, medicine is running low.
Bringing synthetic biology education to life
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- Written by Rob Matheson
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Synthetic biology - which involves engineering biological systems for new uses - has become an increasingly prominent, and promising, field of study in colleges and universities worldwide.
Unique new study shows political orientation of all 50 U.S. states over time
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- Written by Peter Dizikes
Cambridge, Massachusetts - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, in a 1932 opinion, wrote that a state could be a “laboratory” for policy, and “try novel social and economic experiments” on its own. We have since turned those words into today’s common political phrase that the 50 U.S. states are “laboratories of democracy.”
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