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Northwestern University, University of Illinois and Tsinghua University research team has created complex 3-D micro- and nanostructures out of silicon and other materials found in advanced technologies using a new assembly method that uses cuts to advantage.
Read more about Japanese Paper Art Inspires New 3-D Fabrication Method
MIT researchers find unintended consequences of an idea to stimulate ocean phytoplankton growth in order to geoengineer a cooler atmosphere.
Read more about Fertilize the Ocean, Cool the Planet?
New work from a team including three Carnegie scientists demonstrates that different magnesium compounds could be abundant inside other planets as compared to Earth.
Read more about A Distant Planet’s Interior Chemistry May Differ From Our Own
Chemistry professors Peidong Yang and Carolyn Bertozzi received the 2014 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award last week during a ceremony at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C.
Read more about Carolyn Bertozzi, Peidong Yang Receive Lawrence Award from DOE
Wichita State professors and students have found that new evidence supports the Big Bang Theory and emerging ideas in medical and defense technology.
Read more about Wichita State Researchers Experiment with Particle Physics
Inspired by water bears, researchers at the University of Chicago have created glasses where there is some well-defined organization, as well as the origin of that organization.
Read more about Microscopic Animals Inspire Innovative Glass Research
Scientists at Caltech have shown that deep sea microbes separated by distance can still communicate and work together, using electrons to share energy and thereby consuming large amounts of methane released from vents on the ocean floor.
Read more about Flowing Electrons Help Ocean Microbes Gulp Methane
Map created by a team of researchers including those at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaii, should be useful in providing a picture of the Earth’s radioactivity and revealing processes within the lower crust and mantle.
Read more about First Global Antineutrino Emission Map Highlights Earth’s Energy Budget
Researchers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have sorted through the billions of subatomic particles that zip through its frozen cubic-kilometer-sized detector each year to gather powerful new evidence in support of 2013 observations confirming the existence of cosmic neutrinos.
Read more about New Data From Antarctic Detector Firms Up Cosmic Neutrino Sighting
UC Berkeley researchers have discovered a new way to switch the polarization of nanomagnets, paving the way for high-density storage to move from hard disks onto integrated circuits.
Read more about Small Tilt in Magnets Makes Them Viable Memory Chips
University of Nevada, Reno environmental engineer Yu (Frank) Yang is leading a major study on the carbon cycles in soil with a highly competitive $650,000 grant funded by the Department of Energy.
Read more about Studying Climate Change, Everything from Soil to the Carbon Sink
Wesley Smith, a UW-Madison physicist, is overseeing the ultrafast sifting and winnowing procedure for the CMS (compact muon solenoid) experiment, one of two general purpose detectors at history's largest scientific project, the Large Hadron Collider.
Read more about As Giant Physics Machine Restarts, Essential Role for UW Continues
