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Science Highlights

Tipping the Balance to a Quantum Spin Liquid
Genome Mining in a Coal Mine
Teasing Out Iron's Structural Subtleties
A New Catalyst for Making Fuels from Shale Gas (Tufts University press release)
Unravelling the Mystery of Nanoparticle-Reinforced Polymers
A Long-Sought Source of Ocean Methane (MIT press release)
Gel Formation Revealed
Unraveling the Electronic Properties of Actinide Compounds
Light Can Make Things Happen
Creeping of Striped Nanodomains in Nominal Atomic Layers of Ferroelectrics
Gopal K. Shenoy, a Founder of the APS, Passed Away
Researchers Unraveling Mummy Mysteries with Powerful APS X-rays (Chicago Tribune article)
The Multitasking Secrets of an RNA-binding Protein (The Princeton University blog entry)
First-Ever U.S. Experiments May Lead to Better Explosive Modeling (Los Alamos National Laboratory press release)
A Key Psychiatric Drug Target Comes Into Focus (University of California, San Francisco, press release)
A Navigational View of the Brain (Georgia Tech press release)
Confirming an Exotic Ground State in a Lacunar Spinel
Transformation of Graphite into Hexagonal Diamond (Washington State University press release)
Crystals in a Pink X-ray Beam (DESY press release)
Proteins May Prevent Dysfunction and Disease by Relaxing (Notre Dame University and University of Chicago press releases)
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