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Purdue part of field study to improve severe weather forecasting

Purdue University professors and students will intercept storms as part of a major field project to improve predictions of severe weather and offer earlier warnings to those in its path.
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LEDs reduce costs for greenhouse tomato growers, study shows

Tomatoes grown around LED lights in the winter can significantly reduce greenhouse energy costs without sacrificing yield, according to a Purdue University study.
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'Super-resolution' microscope possible for nanostructures

Researchers have found a way to see synthetic nanostructures and molecules using a new type of super-resolution optical microscopy that does not require fluorescent dyes, representing a practical tool for biomedical and nanotechnology research.
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Sunlit snow triggers atmospheric cleaning, ozone depletion in the Arctic

A Purdue University-led team of researchers discovered sunlit snow to be the major source of atmospheric bromine in the Arctic, the key to unique chemical reactions that purge pollutants and destroy ozone.
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Purdue researcher's new 'tool for the organic chemist toolbox' licensed to Sigma-Aldrich

A Purdue University researcher's U.S. patent for a safer, easier and 'greener' method to incorporate fluorine into organic compounds - a common step in materials processing, drug discovery and synthesis of agricultural treatments - has been licensed to a subsidiary of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, a St. Louis-based life science and high technology company.

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Purdue trustees approve frozen tuition and fee cuts

Purdue University trustees on Wednesday (May 22) approved frozen tuition and cut costs for West Lafayette students.

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Innovation could bring flexible solar cells, transistors, displays

Researchers have created a new type of transparent electrode that might find uses in solar cells, flexible displays for computers and consumer electronics and future 'optoelectronic' circuits for sensors and information processing.

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Oliver Wendt SPEAK all device

Apps may open communication door for children, families affected by severe, non-verbal autism

Stephen and Diane Beaudoin have tried for years to fully communicate with their son, David, 11, who is diagnosed with severe, non-verbal autism. The Beaudoins credit SPEAK all!, an iPad application, with the enriched communication they now have with their son. David has been using SPEAK all! for about one year.

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