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To continuously improve the quality of research funded by the National Institutes of Health, five new grants will launch the Initiative to Improve Education in the Principles of Rigorous Research.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's decades of leadership in developing high-energy lasers is being tapped to provide a key component of a major upgrade to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's ...

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