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Superbug Scare: GVSU Faculty Searching for Solutions

Several chemistry professors, including Rachel Powers, Brad Wallar, and David Leonard, and their teams of undergraduate students at Grand Valley State University have spent the past 10 years researching solutions to antibiotic resistance, using the high-energy X-ray beams at Argonne National Lab to create three-dimensional images of enzymes that inhibit antibiotics.

Finding a New Formula for Concrete

Researchers at MIT look to bones and shells as blueprints for stronger, more durable concrete.

New Concept Turns Battery Technology Upside-Down

A new approach to the design of a liquid battery, using a passive, gravity-fed arrangement similar to an old-fashioned hourglass, could offer great advantages due to the system’s low cost and the simplicity of its design and operation, says a team of MIT researchers who have made a demonstration version of the new battery.

UM Researcher Embarks on Field Campaign to Study Effects of Smoke on Earth’s Climate

A scientist at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is leading an upcoming international research campaign to study a significant contributor to regional climate warming - smoke.

Hot New Solar Cell

A team of MIT researchers has for the first time demonstrated a device based on a method that enables solar cells to break through a theoretically predicted ceiling on how much sunlight they can convert into electricity.

UTA Prepares Titan Supercomputer to Process the Data from Quadrillions of Proton Collisions Generated in the New Large Hadron Collider Experiments

University of Texas at Arlington physicists are preparing the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in Tennessee to support the analysis of data generated from the quadrillions of proton collisions expected during this season’s Large Hadron Collider particle physics experiments.

Ivy’s Powerful Grasp Could Lead to Better Medical Adhesives and Stronger Battle Armor

Research from The Ohio State University illuminates the tiny particles responsible for ivy’s ability to latch on so tight to trees and buildings that it can withstand hurricanes and tornadoes.

Texas A&M Chemist Says Trapped Electrons to Blame for Lack of Battery Efficiency

An international team led by Texas A&M University chemist Sarbajit Banerjee is one step closer, thanks to new research that has the potential to create more efficient batteries by shedding light on the cause of one of their biggest problems -- a "traffic jam" of ions that slows down their charging and discharging process.

X-Ray Snapshot of Butterfly Wings Reveals Underlying Physics of Color

A team of scientists led by UC San Diego physicist Oleg Shpyrko have visualized the internal nanostructure of an intact butterfly wing and discovered two physical attributes that make those structures so bright and colorful.

UChicago Physicists First to See Behavior of Quantum Materials in Curved Space

Interplay of light and matter is of potential technological interest.

Dynamic Duo: USU Biochemists Peg Tandem Halves of Life-Critical Enzyme

Utah State University biochemists and colleagues report a tenacious enzyme that uses a similar principle to break nitrogen’s unrelenting bonds and convert the life-critical gas into ammonia to fuel the world’s food supply.

UCI Physicists Confirm Possible Discovery of Fifth Force of Nature

A new theory proposed by theoretical physicists at the University of California, Irvine indicates the possible discovery of a previously unknown subatomic particle as evidence of a fifth fundamental force of nature and a key to understanding dark matter in the universe.