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Is the Sky the Limit for Wind Power?
In the future, will wind power tapped by high-flying kites light up New York? A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution identifies New York as a prime location for exploiting...

Superconducting Hydrogen?
Physicists have long wondered whether hydrogen could be transformed into a metal or a superconductor and they have speculated that certain pressure and temperature conditions could achieve these...

Gene Function Discovery: Guilt by Association
Scientists, including Plant Biology's Sue Rhee, have created a new computational model that can be used to predict gene function of uncharacterized plant genes with unprecedented speed and...

Merging Galaxies Create a Binary Quasar
Astronomers have found the first clear evidence of a binary quasar within a pair of actively merging galaxies. Binary quasars, like other quasars, are thought to be the product of galaxy mergers....

Early Agriculture Left Traces in Animal Bones
Unraveling the origins of agriculture in different regions around the globe has been a challenge for archeologists. Now researchers from the Carnegie Institution and other organizations writing in...