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Abigail A Salyers
Much of modern medicine relies on the continued efficacy of antibiotics, but the disease-causing bacteria that are targeted by antibiotics are becoming increasingly resistant to them. To make matters worse, many pharmaceutical companies have reduced or suspended their antibiotic discovery programs…
Jonathan Sweedler
What is the chemical nature of thought? What is memory? Why, over 2,000 years since Aristotle first asked such questions, are we still searching for answers? Animal nervous systems range from the simple nerve nets found in jellies to the complexity of the human brain. While the spatial…
Dale J Van Harlingen
Superconductivity is one of the most remarkable and potentially useful phenomena ever discovered --- the ability of a material to carry electrical current without any loss of energy by heating was an amazing and unexpected observation first made almost 100 years ago. The mysterious behavior of…