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Just like lightning, fusion plasmas contain odd electromagnetic whistler waves that could control destructive electrons in fusion reactors.
Optimizing lithium-sulfur battery electrolytes for long life.
Catalog of candidate genes involved in plant-microbe relationships.
Researchers develop a method of identifying gene expression patterns in drought-resistant plants.
New algorithm lets biologists harness massively parallel supercomputers to make sense of a “data deluge.”
Magnesium ions move very fast to enable a new class of battery materials.
Converting laser light into nuclear vibrations is key to switching a material’s properties on and off for future electronics.
Scientists demonstrated that powerful acids heal certain structural defects in synthetic films.
Novel engineered polymers assemble buckyballs into columns using a conventional coating process.
Lasting just a few hundred billionths of a billionth of a second, these bursts offer new tool to study chemistry and magnetism.
First demonstration of high-pressure metastability mapping with ultrafast X-ray diffraction shows objects aren’t as large as previously thought.
Exotic material exhibits an optical response in enormous disproportion to the stimulus—larger than in any known crystal.
