Research reveals that giant viruses acquire genes piecemeal from others, with implications for bioenergy production and environmental cleanup.
Researchers find a grass gene affecting how plants manage water and carbon dioxide that could be useful to growing biofuel crops on marginal land.
Plants and soil microbes may be altered by climate warming at different rates and in different ways, meaning vital nutrient patterns could be misaligned.
Teamwork provides insight into complicated cloud processes that are important to potential environmental changes in the Arctic.
Researchers made a sheet of boron only one atom thick with the potential to change solar panels, computers, and more.
Novel electrode materials have designed pathways for electrons and ions during the charge/discharge cycle.
Researchers create materials with controllable electrical and magnetic properties, even at room temperature.
First observation of “quantum” heat transport uncovers the ultimate limits for nanoscale devices.
Well-packed organic glass better resists changes when exposed to light.
Rough surfaces provide additional sites for energy-generating reactions in fuel cells.
Device design allows ten-fold increase in spin currents, laying the path to use in computing and high-efficiency electronics.
Researchers perform first spectroscopic measurements on antihydrogen in pursuit of one of our biggest scientific mysteries: why is there so little antimatter in the universe?
