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11/17/2017
Engineers Create Stable Plasma Ring in Open Air

Man-made St. Elmo's fire generated with just water and a flat, dielectric plate.

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11/17/2017
Kill Switches for Engineered Microbes Gone Rogue

Stable autonomous kill switches ensure biocontainment of living microbes designed as devices for medicine or the environment.​

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11/15/2017
2017 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award Winners Named

Stories on the social value of aging killer whales, a meteor hunt and the brain of the world’s greatest solo climber are among the winners.

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11/13/2017
Experts Call for Ethics Rules to Protect Privacy, Free Will as Brain Implants and AI Merge

Scientists call for ethical guidelines to cover the evolving use of neurotechnologies to enhance or restore human capabilities.

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11/13/2017
Inauguration of Next-generation Neutrino Science Organization for the Hyper-Kamiokande Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Experiment

Japan launches an organization to develop the world's biggest neutrino particle detector.​

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11/08/2017
A Star That Would Not Die

UCSB astrophysicists and LCO astronomers study a supernova that challenges known theories of how certain stars end their lives.​

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11/06/2017
Columbia Scientists Find Long-Elusive Protein; Discovery Will Enable New Investigations into Cell Biology and Disease

A Q&A with neuroscientist Franck Polleux, Ph.D.​

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10/27/2017
Scientists Detect Comets Outside Our Solar System

Team  of professional and citizen scientists identifies tails of comets streaking past a distant star.

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10/23/2017
Interneuron Networks Control Distinct Elements of The Brain´s Positioning System

Two distinct classes of interneurons orchestrate independent cell classes of the positioning system.​

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10/20/2017
Shaping Animal, Vegetable and Mineral

Researchers develop mathematical techniques for designing shape-shifting shells.​

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