For human researchers, it takes many years of work to discover new super-resolution microscopy techniques. The number of possible optical configurations of a microscope -- for example, where to place ...

The design of a two-color microarray experiment can be considered as having three layers. Figure 1 shows an example of an experiment that compares the effects of two treatments—A and B—on ...

Competition is an important interaction in ecology, and many experiments have been done to examine the effects of intraspecific and interspecific competition. Unfortunately, most of these experiments ...

The U.S. military is moving ahead in its plan to develop a robotic space plane capable of launching payloads to orbit cheaply and efficiently. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has ...

It’s no secret that the U.S. has been marred by a housing crisis for decades. In the face of the housing shortage, architects have proposed higher density, modular construction, and even shipping ...

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