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Herbivore digestion involves a large variety of enzymes that break woody plants into biofuel building blocks.
Surface plasmons move at nearly the speed of light and travel farther than expected, possibly leading to faster electronic circuits.
Concentrating noble-metal catalyst atoms on the surface of porous nano-frame alloys shows over thirty-fold increase in performance.
New metal oxide material works at temperatures low enough to improve fuel cell efficiency.
New tool identifies molecules that influence microbial communities.
Microbe found to use two biochemical pathways for degrading lignin.
Unusual reaction eschews high temperatures and water to lock away climate-changing carbon dioxide.
New insights into the effect of light quality on bacterial metabolism and respiration.
New approach to molecular self-assembly produces porous, thin films of carbon (aka graphene), enabling high-capacity electrodes for lithium-air batteries.
Understanding the interaction of uranium in soils may lead to new ways to clean-up contaminated ground.
