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The traditional view of proteins is that, right after being synthesized, they must fold into a unique shape to function properly. Unstructured proteins, according to biological orthodoxy, are pathological

Legislation on California state Sen. Mark Leno's desk has the potential to affect every household in the U.S.

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Proteins are the stuff of life. They are the eyes, arms and legs of living cells

* Catastrophic damage in North Carolina - governor * Two nuclear reactors in Virginia shut down Saturday [More]

By Gerard Wynn LONDON (Reuters) - A better monitoring network for greenhouses gases is needed to warn of significant changes and to keep countries that have agreed to cut their emissions honest, scientists said in papers published Monday. [More]

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Pollution is cheap, for the polluter. Releasing sulfurous fumes into the air or dumping radioactive water into the ocean is ostensibly the easiest and cheapest way to deal with unwanted byproducts.

PHILADELPHIA--In medicine, there's the patient and there's the chart. And the chart is paper. [More]

Honey’s been a medicine since before medicine as we know it even existed. Its use was described on Sumerian clay tablets from nearly four thousand years ago.

Fitting fossils together to assemble massive dinosaur skeletons is certainly no small feat.

"Charles Sanders Peirce once observed that in no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory." [More]

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. and Russian greenhouse gas emissions fell in 2009, according to data submitted to the United Nations, as economic decline cut the use of fossil fuels

By Richard Lovett of Nature magazine In the calculus of global warming, natural gas is generally considered to be preferable to coal as a fuel. [More]

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