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| Latest Stories Research confirms graphene's exotic electrical properties - Text | HTML | Flash The hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: a remarkably flat molecule made of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings much like molecular chicken wire.... Tiny leaf beetles reveal environment's role in speciation - Text | HTML | Flash Unnoticed by the nearby residents of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, tiny leaf beetles that flit among the maple and willow trees in the area have just provided some of the clearest evidence yet that environmental factors play a major role in the formation of new species..... Antonis Rokas trims tree of life - Text | HTML | Flash In a sense, Antonis Rokas is an arborist: He is a member of a small cadre to scientists who are applying the growing power of genomics to untangle and correctly arrange the branches of the Tree of Life.... First direct information about the prion's molecular structure - Text | HTML | Flash A collaboration between scientists at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco has led to the first direct information about the molecular structure of prions.... Astronomers participate in new search for dark energy - Text | HTML | Flash Vanderbilt astronomers are participating in the most ambitious attempt yet to trace the history of the universe : a six year sky survey has just seen "first light." |
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