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David Schuster, assistant professor of physics, and his collaborators at UChicago, Argonne National Laboratory and Yale University have integrated trapped electrons with superconducting quantum circuits, an advance in the effort to develop quantum computers.
Read more about New Device Steps Toward Isolating Single Electrons for Quantum Computing
MIT researchers have found that interactions between electrons and heat-carrying particles called phonons can play a significant role in preventing heat dissipation in microelectronic devices.
Read more about Electron-Phonon Interactions Affect Heat Dissipation in Computer Chips
An international research team has collected detailed structural data on two proteins in an insecticide by blasting them with an intense beam of bright, fast pulses of light at the Linac Coherent Light Source at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in order to adapt current larvicides and target the Aedes mosquitoes.
Read more about To Battle Mosquito-Borne Disease, SLAC X-ray Laser Provides New View of Insecticides
Scientists at Johns Hopkins say they are one step closer to understanding the genetic mechanism of a rare, complex, multiple-gene disorder called Hirschsprung’s disease.
Read more about Noncoding Mutations Disrupt Cooperative Function of ‘Gene Families’ in Rare Genetic Disorder
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have for the first time developed a supercapacitor that uses no conductive carbon at all, and that could potentially produce more power than existing versions of this technology.
Read more about New Kind of Supercapacitor Made Without Carbon
Kent Chapman, Regents Professor of biological sciences at the University of North Texas, has been awarded a $650,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. The grant is part of ongoing funding from the DOE and will be used to study the cellular storage of lipids in plants.
Read more about UNT Professor Receives Grant for Research that Could Lead to Alternative Energy Use
UC Riverside-led team demonstrates optimization and visualization of a catalyst used to convert carbon dioxide waste to methane gas and chemical intermediates.
Read more about Making Catalysts Smarter
By adding highly accurate radiocarbon dating of soil to standard Earth system models, environmental scientists from the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have learned a dirty little secret: The ground will absorb far less atmospheric carbon dioxide this century than previously thought.
Read more about UCI-led Study Finds Soil Will Absorb Less Atmospheric Carbon Than Expected This Century
Florida State University Professor Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt captures the fundamental chemistry of the element berkelium, or Bk on the periodic table.
Read more about FSU Chemistry Professor Explores Outer Regions of Periodic Table
Lab experiments carried out by an MIT and Oxford University team provide detailed information about how a liquid moves through spaces in a porous material, revealing the key role of a characteristic called wettability.
Read more about Study Reveals New Physics of How Fluids Flow in Porous Media
In a new paper, University of California, Riverside theoretical physicist Flip Tanedo and his collaborators have made new progress towards unravelling a mystery in the beryllium nucleus that may be evidence for a fifth force of nature.
Read more about Nuclear Puzzle May Be Clue to Fifth Force
Researchers at MIT have for the first time identified the structure of class I fumarate hydratase enzyme, which could be a target for drugs combatting diseases prevalent in the developing world.
Read more about Targeting Neglected Diseases
