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Dartmouth College’s Life Science Department will soon be expanding with the addition of the Class of 1978 Life Science Center. The new building will replace Gilman Hall, which…
Since the beginning of recorded history, humans have tried to foretell the end of the world. In the Bible, it was said that there would be an Apocalypse…
To the typical consumer, it may seem that the process of miniaturization is an inexorable march towards ever smaller devices. Every year, manufacturers parade a line of slimmer…
On October 2, 2007, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Mario R. Capecchi, Martin K. Evans, and Oliver Smithies. The Nobel laureates were…
Gerhard Ertl, German scientist and Professor Emeritus at the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, celebrated his 71st birthday on October 10, 2007. On that day, he received the…