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Northwestern University researchers understanding of zinc’s role in healthy embryos could improve in vitro fertilization.
Read more about Stunning Zinc Fireworks When Egg Meets Sperm
A team of researchers from Purdue University's Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels, or C3Bio, has developed a process that uses a chemical catalyst and heat to spur reactions that convert lignin into valuable chemical commodities.
Read more about New Conversion Process Turns Biomass 'Waste' Into Lucrative Chemical Products
New research led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Arizona (UA) indicates that shifts in Pacific trade winds played a key role in twentieth century climate variation, a sign that they may again be influencing global temperatures.
Read more about Coral Reveals Long-term Link Between Pacific Winds, Global Climate
A team at UC San Diego create a modification that simplifies one piece of the standard mathematical model of particle physics
Read more about Physicists Explain Puzzling Particle Collisions
Research team led by the University of Michigan shows that the rotational direction of light can coax inorganic nanoparticles to assemble into left- or right-handed twisting ribbons.
Read more about Twisted Light, Nanoparticles & Insights Into the Structure of Life
New nanoscale protein container could lead to synthetic vaccines and offer a way to deliver medicine inside of human cells.
Read more about UCLA Biochemists Build Largest Synthetic Molecular ‘Cage’ Ever
Researchers at Drexel University and Dalian University of Technology in China have chemically engineered a new, electrically conductive nanomaterial that is flexible enough to fold, but strong enough to support many times its own weight.
Read more about Drexel Engineers Improve Strength, Flexibility of Atom-Thick Films
A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team tries to find improvements in iron pyrite (fool's gold) that could lead to inexpensive yet efficient solar cells.
Read more about Scientists Get to the Heart of Fool's Gold as a Solar Material
A piece of web history is made available again for the first time since its debut in the early 1990s.
Read more about Stanford Libraries Unearths the Earliest U.S. Website
Ferroelectric materials – commonly used in transit cards, gas grill igniters, video game memory and more – could become strong candidates for use in next-generation computers.
Read more about Faster Switching Helps Ferroelectrics Become Viable Replacement for Transistors
Breakthrough in research could lead to a better coupling of light and magnetism, which in turn could yield improvements in data storage, sensing, imaging, and optical communication.
Read more about Discovery by UT Engineers Makes Invisibility Tantalizingly Close
MIT team provides theoretical roadmap to making 2-D electronics with novel properties.
Read more about New 2-D Quantum Materials for Nanoelectronics
