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Social Network Research May Boost Prairie Dog Conservation Efforts

Researchers at North Carolina State University using statistical tools to map social connections in prairie dogs have uncovered relationships that escaped traditional observational techniques, shedding light on prairie dog communities that may help limit the spread of bubonic plague and guide future conservation efforts.

UC Riverside at the Large Hadron Collider

A video of UC Riverside graduate students sharing what it is like to build one of the world's largest and most complicated machines.

DOE Office of Science Statement on Digital Data Management

The Office of Science Statement on Digital Data Management has been developed with input from a variety of stakeholders in this mission. The focus of this statement is sharing and preservation of digital research data.

New Approach to Form Non-Equilibrium Structures

By injecting energy through oscillations, researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University can force particles to self assemble under non-equilibrium conditions.

UT Students Experience Supercomputing on Titan

A group of graduate students from the University of Tennessee has the unique opportunity to perform research on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Titan.

Spinach Could Lead to Alternative Energy More Powerful than Popeye

Purdue University physicists are part of an international group using spinach to study the proteins involved in photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert the sun’s energy into carbohydrates used to power cellular processes.

A Tree May Have the Answers to Renewable Energy

Xudong Wang, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at UW-Madison, recently collaborated with researcher, Dr. Zhiyong Cai, in the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory in Madison on research to use cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) for water splitting, a process that converts solar energy to hydrogen fuel.

Bringing High-energy X-rays into Better Focus

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have invented a customizable chemical etching process that can be used to manufacture high-performance focusing devices for the brightest X-ray sources on the planet, as well as to make other nanoscale structures such as biosensors and battery electrodes.

New Platinum Alloy Shows Promise as Fuel Cell Catalyst

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the Technical University of Denmark have developed highly efficient nanoparticles that could bring down the cost of fuel cells.

Steam From the Sun

New spongelike structure developed at MIT converts solar energy into steam.

Brown Physicists Part of "Second Generation" Dark Matter Experiments

The Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation announced support last week for several next-generation experiments in the search for dark matter. Among those getting the green light is the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, which includes a team of Brown University physicists and students.

Shrimp, 30,000 Volts Help UA Start-up Land $1.5 Million for Uranium Extraction

The U.S. Department of Energy selected a University of Alabama start-up company for an approximate $1.5 million award to refine an alternative material to potentially extract uranium from the ocean.