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Northwestern team develops new approach to catalyst design using SPBCL and DFT; new HER catalyst 7x more active than Pt

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—Professor Chad A. ii) The metal ion contents of the nanoreactors are thermally transformed into nanoparticles under a reducing environment. Liliang Huang, Peng-Cheng Chen, Mohan Liu, Xianbiao Fu, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Yanan Yu, Chris Wolverton, Yijin Kang, Chad A. Mirkin, co-corresponding author. Huang et al. 1800884115.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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We hear who you are The methods of automated speech recognition, which converts speech into text, can be adapted to perform the more sophisticated task of speaker recognition, which some practitioners refer to as voiceprinting. Indeed, forensic scientists hope one day to glean as much information from a voice recording as from DNA.

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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ORNL’s current mission is to conduct basic and applied research and development to create scientific knowledge and technological solutions that strengthen the nation’s leadership in key areas of science; increase the availability of clean, abundant energy; restore and protect the environment; and contribute to national security.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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And so you have a difficult time converting from all of that rich information in the documents themselves into something that's usable in the RDF. There's sort of an interesting backstory there that has to do with the fact that, you know, as mammalian systems were evolving, lead didn't exist in the environment, right?