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An international team has succeeded in producing new, efficient thermoelectric materials that could compete with state-of-the-art materials, offering greater stability and lower cost.

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Research published in the Journal of Neurochemistry has detailed the role of a protein, hnRNP A1, in the formation and ...

And in fact, humans even deploy another method known as bone conduction, which uses sound vibrating through ... Stanford University, for example, has demonstrated how to rearrange densely-packed heart ...

Scientists apply principles of math and physics to unravel the mystery of how the endoplasmic reticulum, an organelle vital ...

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