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Research That Improves Our Lives
America's leading research universities are constantly working on new treatments and cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimers, as well as life-changing innovations that make us wealthier and more secure.
A new study shows that new housing construction in flood-prone areas has contributed to increasing risk across North Carolina despite community and government efforts to reduce flood damage.
MSU research shows how elevated carbon dioxide levels affect plant metabolism.
Rice University engineers have developed minimally invasive, ultraflexible nanoelectrodes that could serve as an implanted platform for administering long-term, high-resolution stimulation therapy.
Combining discoveries in cancer immunology with sophisticated genetic engineering, Columbia University rese
According to a new study, what the human genome lacks compared with the genomes of other primates was crucial to the development of humankind.
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