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Curbing maternal deaths
Researchers use X-rays to map misoprostol, a lifesaving drug that stops postpartum bleeding, in action
Misoprostol and EP3 receptor
Toward zapping cancer in under a second
SLAC/Stanford team builds accelerator technology that could revolutionize radiation therapy
Radiation Therapy
Stress changed ice age beast to the bone
Elements in fossils give clues about the life of a long-extinct subspecies of spotted hyena
Spotted hyena
Filming photosynthesis
Researchers capture all four stable states of the process that produces the oxygen we breathe, as well as fleeting steps in between
Atomic movie

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Theoretical physicist Shoucheng Zhang dies at 55
The SIMES researcher was a rare theorist who concerned himself with the implications of his abstract ideas about new quantum states of matter on experiments and future technologies.
Shoucheng Zhang
Symmetry: LHC ends second season of data-taking
During the last four years, LHC scientists have filled in gaps in our knowledge and tested the...
Photo LHC Second Season
Symmetry: Gravitational lenses
Predicted by Einstein and discovered in 1979, gravitational lensing helps astrophysicists...
Dancing atoms in perovskite materials provide insight into how solar cells work
A new study is a step forward in understanding why perovskite materials work so well in energy...
Neutron scattering
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How plants produce oxygen revealed by 'tour-de-force' laser measurement
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Vanadium dioxide’s weird phase transition just got weirder
Science News
Scientists may have found what makes batteries degrade over time
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