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A team at MIT and other institutions has come up with a way to bypass the time-consuming steps currently needed to test new photovoltaic materials.
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New research from a team at MIT shows that such imperfections in a family of materials known as insulating metal oxides may be key to their performance for a variety of high-tech applications, such as nonvolatile memory chips and energy conversion technologies.
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On August 22, Robart, assistant professor of biochemistry in the WVU School of Medicine, used the powerful Advanced Photon Source at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago via the Internet to zap three types of life-sustaining crystals with X-rays revealing molecular structures that resemble tangles of corkscrew pasta or patterns of daisies.
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Scientists at Michigan State University show how the two OCP parts interact and create new synthetic versions of that protein. The goal is to use the OCP in synthetic healthcare systems, powered by light.
Read more about Turning the Evolutionary Clock Back on a Light-Sensitive Protein
A team in the lab of Puru Jena, Ph.D., a distinguished professor in the Department of Physics in the College of Humanities and Sciences, has created the most stable tri-anion particle currently known to science.
Read more about VCU Physicists Discover a Tri-anion Particle with Colossal Stability
Michigan State University will lead a $10 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to explore ways to boost this promising biofuel crop's yield.
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A team of physicists, led by Hai-Bo Yu of the University of California, Riverside, explain diverse galactic-rotation curves - a graph of rotation speeds at different distances from the center – as collisions by dark matter particles with one another in the inner halo, close to the galaxy’s center – a process called dark matter self-interaction.
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The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science announced today that University of Minnesota physics graduate student Zachary Loren Robinson is one of only 52 graduate students from across the nation selected for DOE’s 2017 Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program Award.
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UCLA bioengineers and their colleagues have discovered a new perspective on how cells regulate the sizes of mitochondria, the parts of cells that provide energy, by cutting them into smaller units.
Read more about UCLA Bioengineers Discover Mechanism that Regulates Cells' 'Powerhouses'
University of Georgia researchers have discovered a new way that iron is stored in microorganisms, a finding that provides new insights into the fundamental nature of how biological systems work.
Read more about Researchers Describe Protein Previously Unknown in Biology
Physicists at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech have discovered the first three-dimensional quantum liquid crystal—a new state of matter that may have applications in ultrafast quantum computers of the future.
Read more about New Quantum Liquid Crystals May Play Role in Future of Computers
A new study at the University of Nevada, Reno has found a potential way to reduce the presence of the antimicrobial that is also linked to problems with antibiotic resistance.
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