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Cubic Corporation (NYSE: CUB) celebrated the Independence Day holiday by showing its support for the new National Museum of the United States Army to be built in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Arlington, VA (PRWEB) July 03, 2012 Cubic is presenting a check for $40,000 to the Army Historical Foundation (AHF) this month as part of its five-year commitment to the planned museum. Thanks to contributions from companies like Cubic, the foundation is close to reaching its $200 million goal. The museum...

Lead sulfide (PbS) forms when an equal number of lead and sulfur atoms exchange electrons and bond together in cubic crystals. Now scientists have determined that a structure comprising 32 lead-sulfur pairs is the smallest possible cubic arrangement that exhibits the same coordination as bulk lead sulfide. (The coordination number is the number of nearest neighbors each atom in the crystal has.) Researchers from McNeese State University in Louisiana, John Hopkins University in Maryland,...