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In a new breakthrough from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, scientists successfully created a method to produce large quantities of xanthommatin.

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Their findings suggest that as nickel levels decreased and urea stabilized, cyanobacteria flourished, releasing oxygen in large quantities.

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“Data centers need low latency and high-density bandwidth density,” Gastwirth said, referring to fiber-optic technology’s ability to transmit data faster and in greater quantities.

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The Amazon rainforest stores vast amounts of carbon, which becomes carbon dioxide -- a greenhouse gas that is a key driver of climate change -- when large quantities of trees and soil are burned.

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A "large quantity" of drugs was confiscated, Governor Claudio Castro said Tuesday, without giving details on the type or amount.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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