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LAS News

Esther Ngumbi examining tomato plants
Drowning tomatoes for science
To understand how tomatoes can handle climate change, Esther Ngumbi puts plants to the ultimate test
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Wayne Pitard
New book highlights accomplishments of influential Black leader in post-Civil War Illinois
Emeritus professor Wayne Pitard describes the life of John J. Bird
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Researchers
Breaking open the AI black box
Researchers find key chemistry for solar energy and beyond
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Huimin Zhao
National Science Foundation funds new iBioFoundry at Illinois
Project will advance protein and cellular engineering
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Ilana Redstone
Book: Healing America’s divisiveness requires changing how we think
Sociology professor Ilana Redstone spells out the dangers of blind certainty
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James Webb Space Telescope undergoing testing in 2017
U of I astronomers lead ambitious survey with the James Webb Space Telescope
Researchers expect the new observational data to transform our understanding of how stars and galaxies formed
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Antoinette Burton
Illinois historian’s book provides introduction to gender history
Antoinette Burton's work also sheds light on cultural views of the topic
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Researchers in laboratory
Scientists use evolution to bioengineer new pathways to sustainable energy, pharmaceuticals
Chemistry researchers engineer bacteria-yeast hybrids to generate cellular energy, among other tasks
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