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A Standout Solvent for Today’s Biorefineries Researchers identify butylamine as a promising solution to many challenges at biorefineries.
Exploring the Potential of a Formate-Based Bioeconomy Researchers demonstrated an efficient strain of bacteria for bioproduction that grows on the promising feedstock formate.
Demonstrating Unprecedented Control of X-ray Pulses Researchers have used an undulator’s magnetic field to generate and control ultrafast X-ray pulses.
Bennu’s Ancient Brine Sheds Light on Recipe for Life Using the Advanced Light Source and Molecular Foundry, researchers identified the chemical stew found in samples of the asteroid Bennu.

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Image of a Wigner crystal captured by a high resolution ultra-low temperature scanning tunneling microscope. The periodic sites (blue) form a triangular structure with each consisting of exactly one electron separated by 40 billionths of a meter.

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