Muni bonds used to be the boring, predictable part of your investment portfolio. Not anymore. In January 2011, Greek—I mean, Illinois—politicians had a problem.
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Real-time, 3-D microscopic tissue imaging could be a revolution for medical fields such as cancer diagnosis, minimally invasive surgery and ophthalmology.
Read More »Large, Dangerous Tornado Outbreak Forecast for Friday
Tornadoes are forecast to swarm Friday through a very large and populated area of the nation, stretching from Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and other states.
Read More »Optical nanoantennas enable efficient multipurpose particle manipulation
University of Illinois researchers have shown that by tuning the properties of laser light illuminating arrays of metal nanoantennas, these nano-scale structures allow for dexterous optical tweezing as well as size-sorting of particles.
Read More »Obesity-fighting school says no to cupcakes, yes to exercise
Calorie-conscious cafeteria is just the beginning of Illinois school's medal-winning initiative
Read More »Physicists localize 3-D matter waves for first time (w/ video)
University of Illinois physicists have experimentally demonstrated for the first time how three-dimensional conduction is affected by the defects that plague materials.
Read More »Physicists localize 3-D matter waves for first time (w/ video)
University of Illinois physicists have experimentally demonstrated for the first time how three-dimensional conduction is affected by the defects that plague materials.
Read More »Tevatron retires: The era of big American physics about to end
The era of big American physics ends Friday with the retirement of the Tevatron particle accelerator, which has been recreating the Big Bang under four miles of Illinois prairie for 25 years.
Read More »Insight: Chasing High Corn Prices, U.S. Farmers Skip Rotations
By Michael Hirtzer CHENOA, Illinois (Reuters) - Farmer Brian Schaumburg has planted corn for five straight years in some of the thousands of acres he tends in central Illinois. [More]
Read More »Krypton-81 isotope can help map underground waterways
Cataloguing underground waterways, some of which extend for thousands of miles, has always been difficultbut scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, with colleagues from the University of Illinois at Chicago and the International Atomic Energy Agency, are mapping them with some unusual equipment: lasers and a rare isotope.
Read More »Wilson, Rose lead BMW
Mark Wilson and Justin Rose are tied for the lead at 11 under, two shots ahead of FedEx Cup leader Webb Simpson going into the weekend at the BMW Championship.
Read More »Rose fires 63 to lead BMW
With nothing to lose, Justin Rose put himself in a position for a big gain Thursday at the BMW Championship.
Read More »No Headset for Finance Clerk Costs $128,000
Think the job of a finance clerk seems like a fairly safe one, in terms of potential for injury? Think again.
Read More »Researchers record two-state dynamics in glassy silicon
Using high-resolution imaging technology, University of Illinois researchers have answered a question that had confounded semiconductor researchers: Is amorphous silicon a glass?
Read More »Gold Eagle Company
This family-owned business is all about giving backto their community and employees. Gold Eagle is a family business going back three generations.
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