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Joseph Dexter

Joseph Dexter: Big into Microfluidics

07.30.2008 - This 2008 ISEF finalist tells us about his work developing a microchip used for facilitating a large number of very small chemical reactions in a short time.

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Dr. Kathie Olsen

Cogito Interview: Kathie Olsen, Neuroscientist and NSF Deputy Director

Cogito, 07.18.2008

 Read her answers to questions about the differences between female and male brains, being a neurobiologist, the NSF’s opportunities for pre-college students, and more.
MIT.edu 08Jul31. Design by Rebecca Macri

'Giant Leap' for Clean Energy

by Anne Trafton
MIT News, 07.31.2008

 MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: an inexpensive process for storing solar energy.
PBS NOVA: Carbon Sequestration

Capturing Carbon

PBS NOVA ScienceNOW, 07.02.2008

 Find out how an eighth-grader's science fair project inspired her scientist father to develop a new way to pull excess CO2 out of the atmosphere. (12 min)
Jason Assouline

Cogito Snapshots: Research and the Earth

Cogito, 07.01.2008

 A series of snapshots about how researchers think about and try to protect the environment. We've got answers from a nanotube chemist and an atmospheric scientist so far.

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Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
- Albert Einstein