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  Honesty Guides Scientist to 'Holy Grail' of Physics

  A scientist has helped measure several rare atomic nuclei, including tin-100, a "holy grail" of experimental nuclear physics.

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  Energy of Volcanoes Harnessed to Generate Power

  Geochemist Adam Simon is trying to learn how we can harness heat from volcanoes.

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  Scientist Liked 'Story' Problems in Math as Kid

  John Gierke of Michigan Technological University leads an effort to develop remote sensing tools and resource protection in Central America.

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  Scientist Has Starquakes on the Brain

  Andrew Steiner spends his days figuring out what causes the behavior of earthquake-like phenomena on the surface of neutron stars.

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  Musical Training Helps Scientist Hear Atoms' Movement

  Hari Manoharan recently created the world’s smallest letters – an S and a U, for Stanford University – each only one third of one billionth of a meter across and crafted from a flow of electrons on a copper surface.

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  Chemo Researcher Does the Right Thing

  Ravi Bellamkonda ditched his plan to become a doctor, because he found he could help more people as a scientist.

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  Being a Scientist Means (Almost) Never Wearing a Tie

  J.C. Poutsma is not afraid to push formalities out of the way.

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  Making a Living Studying Nature

  Connecticut College botanist Peter Siver studies some of the world’s tiniest organisms.

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  Scientist Catches Criminals Online

  From poker-website phishing schemes to coordinated website attacks, Yampolskiy looks at activity patterns.

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  Living with Lemurs

  Anne Yoder recently helped create a better map the lemur family tree.

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  Industrial Engineer Maps Flu Outbreaks

  ScienceLives is an occasional series that puts scientists under the microscope to find out what makes them tick.

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  Zhong Lin Wang on Studying Nanotechnology

  By replicating and learning from biological species, we can build materials and structures that have superior performance.

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  Timothy Beers on Being an Astrophysicist

  As a graduate student, I was actually planning to research a different area of astrophysics.

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  Hang Lu on Being a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineer

  The nervous system is both beautiful and complex.

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  James F. Gilchrist on Being a Chemical Engineer

  I've always loved mathematics, chemistry, and physics.

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  Solar Cells Go Organic

  Diane Hinkens was a clothing designer. Now she's designing solar cells.

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  Where Electronic Circuits Meet the Human Brain

  Researcher combines the two in his work.

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  Chemist Conjured Exciting Experiment at Age 10

  When I was about 10 years old, I mixed some old paint, water, and every possible liquid I found in my dad's workshop in an old wine bottle.

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  In Science, There's Never a Final Answer

  David Lentz is a paleoethnobotanist from the University of Cincinnati.

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  Scientist Was Writing 'Books' by Age 5

  Gregory D. Durgin works in Radio Wave Propagation and Applied Electromagnetics at Georgia Tech.