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The International Space Station will soon become the coldest place in the known universe for science!

2014-02-03 20:04:33| Extremetech

Here's one of the coolest sentences you'll ever read: The International Space Station will soon be the coldest place in the known universe. A new instrument that will be sent to the ISS, called the Cold Atom Lab, will reach temperatures as low as 100 picokelvin -- 100 trillionths of a degree above absolute zero. As matter approaches absolute zero, it starts to exhibit some very odd, rather quantum behavior. Because it's so hard to reach these temperatures, and because the material universe acts so weirdly when you get down that low, no one actually knows what the Cold Atom Lab will discover -- but NASA seems to be pretty certain that the findings will be fascinating, in any case.

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Americans too often let science take the back seat

2014-02-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

South Coast Today: One of my favorite public opinion polls is the one that always shows that Americans' attitudes toward the climate can change based on how cold it is when they stick their noses outside in the morning. A national survey conducted this winter by the Yale Project on Climate Change found that 23 percent of us don't believe global warming is happening. That's an increase of 7 percentage points from 16 percent back in April. It suggests that 7 percent of Americans have decided that climate change isn't...

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Valspar Donates $1 million for New University of Minnesota Materials Science and Engineering Lab

2014-01-30 06:00:00| Coatings World Breaking News

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Beer science: Avery Brewing pairs with CU biotech lab to improve quality control

2014-01-27 03:14:51| Biotech - Topix.net

California Ale Yeast: IPA, Ellie's Brown Ale, Out of Bounds Stout, Hog Heaven, The Maharaja, duganA, New World Porter, The Czar When a batch of Avery Brewing Co.'

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Want to get the flu? Volunteers sneeze for science

2014-01-26 18:50:35| Biotech - Topix.net

In this Jan. 14, 2014 photo, Dr. Matthew Memoli, an infectious disease specialist, sprays live flu virus into the nose of Daniel Bennett, 26, of College Park, Md., who is part of a study at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

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