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Columnist Tom Purcell argues that tax cuts, deregulation and rising optimism are helping revive American entrepreneurship and small-business growth.

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Researchers showed that surface chemistry directs two types of diblock copolymer nanoparticles into separate core and ...

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Health officials are warning beachgoers about Vibrio vulnificus, a potentially deadly waterborne bacterium found in warm coastal and brackish waters. Unsplash: Adam Birkett A flesh-eating bacterium ...

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The sixth annual competition showcases scientific microscopic imaging, illuminating tiny parts of nature, from individual cells to arthropods, diatoms and a zebrafish brain Carlyn Kranking | Associate ...

Figure | Working principle of Interferometric Image Scanning Microscopy (iISM). (a) Schematic of the iISM microscope and interferometric PSF detection. (b) iISM with adaptive pixel-reassignment (APR) ...