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Brew the World's Best Beer at the University of California at Davis's Pilot...
Science Career: Brewmaster Many students pass through the beer lab of Professor Charles Bamforth, who for eight years worked as a senior manager at Bass Brewers. But the ones he most enjoys...
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Probe the Ocean Deep at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Science Career: Marine scientist The research cruise that 25-year-old Ellie Bors took in 2009 looked so appealing, she says, that she skipped her own Oberlin College graduation to be part of it. On...
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Design a Micro-Drone at U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground
Science Careers: Defense researcher, engineer Some of the students interning on the Micro-autonomous Systems Technology (MAST) project at the Army Research Lab in Maryland spend their summer trying to...
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Run a Nuclear Reactor (as an Undergrad) at Reed College
Science Careers: Physics researcher, nuclear engineer Reed College, a liberal-arts school in Portland, Oregon, has 1,447 students and no graduate schools. But it has its own nuclear reactor. Only 27...
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Print New Body Parts at the Cornell University Creative Machines Lab
Science Careers: Mechanical engineer, biomedical engineer At the Creative Machines Lab, a division of Cornell's department of mechanical engineering, 3-D printers fabricate everything from cupcake...
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Create a Better Soldier at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's Human...
Science Careers: Defense researcher, engineer During his final spring semester in college, while his classmates fought senioritis, biomedical-engineering major Craig Walters helped the Air Force study...
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Introducing the Popular Science/InnoCentive Education Challenge
Popular Science and InnoCentive invite readers to invent a better way to teach science It's time to get the next generation of scientists thinking about what's important, and you can help. Below are...
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You Call This School? The 25 Coolest College Labs in the Country
Science Forget algebra homework: try building spaceships, operating a nuclear reactor or listening in to distant galaxies Forget stuffy lecture halls and humming fluorescent lights. Build robots...
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First Steps of a Cyborg
Technology Austin Whitney didn’t want to graduate from college in a wheelchair. So he and the student engineers at U.C. Berkeley’s “Kaz Lab” built a machine that allowed him to stand up and walk...
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High School Inventors 2011
Science Ten students who are improving MRIs, cancer treatments and human-robot interaction--between classes, of course In between pep rallies and history tests, these 10 brainy students are refining...
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