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bright future of microgrids The nation's thirst for electricity could grow 400 billion watts in the next quarter century, but microgrids may meet the demand without the need for a thousand new powerplants. Microgrids, clusters of small generators serving office buildings, industrial parks, and homes, could make area-wide blackouts a thing of the past. A fold-your-own
protein kit The Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction is the Grand Prix of bioinformatics, where competitors start with gene sequences and try to determine the shape of unknown proteins. A new visualization tool called ProteinShop jump-starts the race with mathematical concepts that move chains of amino acids like a robot's very long arm. Tahiti sunshine means Rocky Mountain snow |
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