Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins to receive $90 million in new funding Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center will receive $90 million in new funding as part of a $540 million gift from Ludwig Cancer Research, on behalf of its ...
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Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered novel compounds produced by certain types of chemical reactions – such as those found in vehicle exhaust or grilling meat - that are hundreds of times more mutagenic than their ...
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Superconducting materials exhibit unexpected behaviors when subjected to magnetic fields or high pressures –discoveries that have implications for controlling electrons in those special materials. According to two studies, one ...
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Operator Statoil has together with PL272 partners made a gas discovery in the Askja West prospect and an oil discovery in the Askja East prospect in the North Sea. The exploration wells 30/11-9 S and 30/11-9 A, drilled by the drilling ...
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Roxi, the Central Asian oil and gas company with a focus on Kazakhstan, is pleased to update the market as follows: Operational BNG Contract Area Roxi has a 58.41% interest in the BNG Contract Area, which is located in the west of ...
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Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 272, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat wells 30/11-9 S and 30/11-9 A. The well was drilled about 13 kilometres southeast of the 30/11-8 S discovery and about 35 km ...
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Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered a unique stellar system of two white dwarf stars and a superdense neutron star, all packed within a space smaller than Earth's orbit around the ...
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Japan made landmark progress in 2013 in methane hydrate development -- carrying out the world's maiden offshore production test and later confirming the existence of "substantial" structures containing shallow methane in the Sea of Japan in ...
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Roughly 40 percent of all medications act on cells' G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). One of these receptors, beta 2 adrenergic receptor site (B2AR), naturally transforms between two base configurations; knowing the precise location of ...
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The species historically cited as the most abundant of coral algae that forms rodoliths at the Gulf of California in Mexico is in reality a compound of five different species. This finding was made by Jazmín Hernández Kantun, ...
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Lowell Observatory's iconic Clark Telescope is about to undergo a much-needed facelift. After 117 years of constant use, the instrument will be closed for more than a year as engineers and technicians carefully remove telescope components ...
Climate change has not been strongly influenced by variations in heat from the sun, a new scientific study shows. The findings overturn a widely held scientific view that lengthy periods of warm and cold weather in the past might have ...
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JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corporation (President: Shigeo Hirai, "JX Nippon") is pleased to announce that through Greenland Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. ("GreenPeX"), it was successful in the 2012/2013 Licensing Round in Greenland ...
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Dana Gas, the Middle East's leading regional private sector natural gas Company, announced today that it has received from the Egyptian Government authorities the payment of AED 194 million (US$ 53 million) from the current total ...
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Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but anyone browsing this collection of glass crystallisation images beheld by Edgar Zanotto’s eye is unlikely to disagree with his assessment of beauty. In this book, Zanotto celebrates 36 ...
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