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Stanford's Yi Cui and colleagues have created a lithium-ion battery that alerts users of potential overheating and fire.
Read more about Stanford Scientists Create a 'Smart' Lithium-ion Battery That Warns of Potential Fire Hazards
Six researchers from UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory sketched out their teams’ bold plans to jump-start new brain research.
Read more about Three Bay Area Institutions Join Forces to Seed Transformative Brain Research
UC Davis graduate student Zhou Lu, working with professors in the Departments of Chemistry and of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has shown that oxygen can be formed in one step by using a high energy vacuum ultraviolet laser to excite carbon dioxide.
Read more about Making Oxygen Before Life
Researchers at Princeton University discover a material with “colossal magnetoresistance” which could point to new developments in the storage of electronic information.
Read more about Unstoppable Magnetoresistance
Understanding how atoms "glide" and "climb" on the surface of 2D crystals like tungsten disulphide may pave the way for researchers to develop materials with unusual or unique characteristics.
Read more about 2-D Materials' Crystalline Defects Key to New Properties
Researchers at Princeton University have discovered a way to compute the lattice energy of a structure with sufficient resolution to distinguish the actual arrangement of the atoms and reveal the structure among several similar and competing forms.
Read more about Longstanding Bottleneck in Crystal Structure Prediction Solved
Mathematicians from Brown University have introduced a new element of uncertainty into an equation used to describe the behavior of fluid flows.
Read more about Adding Natural Uncertainty Improves Mathematical Models
A team of environmental scientists and engineers from Clemson University, the University of South Carolina and South Carolina State University will use grant to make a direct positive impact on South Carolina in the advancement of monitoring, remediation and disposal of radioactive contaminants.
Read more about Researchers Get $5.25M to Advance Nuclear Technologies in S. Carolina
University of Washington engineers have designed a concept for a fusion reactor that, when scaled up to the size of a large electrical power plant, would rival costs for a new coal-fired plant with similar electrical output.
Read more about UW Fusion Reactor Concept Could Be Cheaper Than Coal
Researchers report that they’ve succeeded in combining a battery and a solar cell into one hybrid device.
Read more about Batteries Included: A Solar Cell that Stores its Own Power
Understanding how reconnection transforms magnetic energy into explosive particle energy has been a major unsolved problem in plasma astrophysics.
Read more about PPPL Scientists Take Key Step Toward Solving a Major Astrophysical Mystery
Rice University theorists determine factors that give tubes their chiral angles.
Read more about Scientists Refine Formula for Nanotube Types
