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THE smell of lemon grass and spice laces through the trees of our jungle-like lunch setting.The sun’s heat only magnifies this delicious aroma, whil

 E-Mail IMAGE: Research Scientist Claudia Boot at work in the Materials and Molecular Analysis Center at Colorado State University. view more  Credit: John Eisele/CSU Photography A multidisciplinary team including an analytical chemist, an ecosystem scientist and two microbiologists at Colorado State University have received a $1 million award from the W.M. Keck Foundation to study rare sugars found in soil. The team aims to explore principles of science on the shape of chemical compo...