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Port Hawkesbury Paper is using microbes to treat 30,000 cubic meters of sludge every day The paper mill is using microbes to treat 30,000 cubic meters of sludge every day.

NASA Mars rover Curiosity has driven out of the ellipse, approximately 4 miles wide and 12 miles long , that was mapped as safe terrain for its 2012 landing inside Gale Crater.

MIT professor emeritus of chemistry Irwin Oppenheim, 84, of Cambridge, passed away on June 3 from complications following cardiac surgery.

Some people had doubted that Voyager 1, launched in 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn, actually reached interstellar space in 2013.

The Salk Institute is pleased to welcome a new full professor and three new assistant professors, all exceptional leaders in their respective fields.

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a new "tsunami wave" from the sun as it sails through interstellar space.

Fifty-two years ago, the gods of good fortune arranged the chance meeting of two young university graduates: Donna from the University of Texas/Austin and Jerry, from California Institute of Technology/Pasadena.

Image Caption: Volume rendering of the entropy of a differentially rotating and highly magnetized progenitor to a supernova in a full 3-D.

When evaluating another person's emotions - happy, sad, angry, afraid - humans take cues from facial expressions.

The Accurin nano-drug BIND-014 encases a toxic payload in a layer of biodegradable polymers , and uses molecules on the surface to target the tumour.

When evaluating another person's emotions - happy, sad, angry, afraid - humans take cues from facial expressions.

Arnold and Mabel Beckman gave the University of Illinois $40 million and, Sinatra and the Beatles notwithstanding, the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology will turn 25 this year.

This May 15, 2014, artist concept rendering provided by NASA shows their Orbiting Carbon Observatory -2.

EDRN uses the EKE to make it easy to discover, share, search for, and retrieve all of EDRN's collective knowledge, including cancers and other diseases, biomarkers, specimens, investigators, participants, studies, protocols, and-as in the case of this product-science data.

This software is developed by the EDRN Informatics Center at JPL , operated by the California Institute of Technology, for NCI .

But what is behind general intelligence and creativity? Observation has long suggested intelligence involves a combination of knowledge and experience.

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have used a technique called surface-initiated polymerization to grow polymer films on nanocantilever chemical vapour sensors.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover will complete a Martian year -- 687 Earth days -- on June 24, having accomplished the mission's main goal of determining whether Mars once offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.

It's no surprise that there is a lot of water in comets. The "dirty snowballs" are literally filled with the stuff, so much in fact it's thought that comets played a major role in delivering water to Earth.

Across the edges of the Indian Ocean, the amount of rainfall differs greatly. If it rains particularly hard in the Sumatran rain forest, the already arid region of East Africa is onset with drought.