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.
Researchers made a sheet of boron only one atom thick with the potential to change solar panels, computers, and more.
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.
Rough surfaces provide additional sites for energy-generating reactions in fuel cells.
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?
A new type of lens improves the focusing precision at the world’s most powerful X-ray light sources.
Molecular Foundry researchers help shed light on barrier to optimal performance.
Neutron-scattering studies reveal surprising formation of ammonia after acetonitrile is turned into graphitic polymer, opening doors for catalyst-free industrial reactions at room temperature.
Researchers invent a low-tech, solution-based route to high-performance carbon nanotube thin films.
