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In particle physics, some symmetries are so severely broken that they’re hard to recognize. Others are so slightly broken that the imperfection is hard to find.

Researchers can now program cells to make their own dyes, which illuminate the activities of proteins within a cell.

The instrument combines the physics of amorphous semiconductors, liquid crystals, and the common document scanner.

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Money and bows to other cultures, such as merit-based salaries and English in the lab, are cultivating good science and attracting leading scientists to spend time in Japan.

Researchers report advances in making renewable fuels that are compatible with the US petroleum infrastructure.

Researchers in Italy say basing both hiring and budget cuts on merit is the most they can hope for to minimize a new law’s damage to universities.

As the transition of power begins, groups seek restoration of the status that science advising held in the White House before the Bush administration.

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A regional war involving 100 Hiroshima-sized weapons would pose a worldwide threat due to ozone destruction and climate change. A superpower confrontation with a few thousand weapons would be catastrophic.

Present and future applications of electrical energy storage devices are stimulating research into innovative new materials and novel architectures.

In communicating our science, have we put too much emphasis on the information we want to convey? Perhaps there is another way to think about it.

The character of Earth’s upper atmosphere is shaped not only by internal processes but also by energy received from deep space above and Earth’s surface below.