New manufacturing process could take exotic material out of the lab and into commercial products. Source: How to make continuous rolls of graphene | MIT >>>

Talcum powder has been used for decades as a lubricant, in cosmetics and for personal hygiene, and for diapering babies. But studies going back years >>>

Last week, the Obama administration said that it would begin winding down the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of Americans’ private phone data i Source: >>>

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A review of James Palfrey’s new book ‘BiblioTech,’ and the culturally critical role libraries play. Source: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age >>>

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A novel mouse has been developed that exhibits the symptoms and neurodegeneration associated with the most common genetic forms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic >>>