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Hundreds of methane-emitting hot spots have been identified across the Los Angeles Basin, including a “clean ports” truck refueling facility near the Port of Long Beach, power plants, water treatment facilities, and cattle in Chino, according to new findings by the University of California, Irvine.
Read more about UCI Maps Methane Leaks Across Los Angeles Basin
A group of researchers from the United Kingdom and the United States has developed a method of producing hydrogen peroxide on demand through a simple, one-step process.
Read more about Hydrogen Peroxide Extends its Reach
An international research group led by physicists at the University of Arkansas created magnetic two-dimensional metal in an artificial oxide material that could be used to make better transistors.
Read more about Physicists Create Magnetic 2-D Metal in Artificial Oxide Material
New work from a team at Carnegie Science identified a protein needed for assembling the photosynthetic apparatus that may help us understand the history of photosynthesis back in the early days of life on Earth, a time when oxygen was not abundant in the atmosphere.
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Findings from one of the first comprehensive field studies by a collaborative team of researchers demonstrate the active layer microbiome of tundra soil was significantly altered after only 1.5 years of experimental warming—a rapid response demonstrating high sensitivity of this ecosystem to warming.
Read more about Collaborative Study of Tundra Soil Demonstrates Vulnerability of Ecosystem to Climate Warming
Chemists in the Syracuse College of Arts and Sciences have made a transformational advance in an alternate lighting source—one that doesn’t require a battery or a plug.
Read more about Chemists Combine Biology and Nanotechnology to Create Alternate Energy Source
New research at the University of Illinois has identified regions in the United States where bioenergy crops would grow best while minimizing effects on water quantity and quality.
Read more about Best for Biofuels
A team including Carnegie’s Qiaoshi “Charles” Zeng and Ho-kwang “Dave” Mao, among others, is trying to figure out the rules that govern metallic glass’s creation by looking at metallic glasses under extreme pressures.
Read more about Making Sense of Metallic Glass
University of Washington scientists have successfully combined two different ultrathin semiconductors — each just one layer of atoms thick and roughly 100,000 times thinner than a human hair — to make a new two-dimensional heterostructure with potential uses in clean energy and optically-active electronics.
Read more about UW Scientists Create Ultrathin Semiconductor Heterostructures For New Technological Applications
Iron-dotted boron nitride nanotubes, made by physicists at Michigan Tech, could make for better wearable tech because of their flexibility and electronic behaviors.
Read more about The Iron Stepping Stones to Better Wearable Tech Without Semiconductors
Two University of Tennessee researchers have developed a method that could help clinicians and scientists better predict which mutations in people’s genes could cause a disease and which would remain dormant.
Read more about Researchers Develop Way to Better Predict Disease-Causing Mutations in Human Genes
A team of scientists at the University of Vermont have discovered a new use for X-rays at the atomic scale: using them like a radar gun to measure the motion and velocity of complex and messy groups of atoms.
Read more about A Radar Gun For Unruly Atoms
