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Physicists at the University of California, Irvine and elsewhere have fabricated new two-dimensional materials with breakthrough electrical and magnetic attributes that could make them building blocks of future quantum computers and other advanced electronics.
Read more about UCI’s New 2-D Materials Conduct Electricity Near the Speed of Light
Stanford Professor Noah Diffenbaugh and his research group have developed a framework for testing whether global warming has contributed to particular extreme weather events.
Read more about Stanford Scientists Test Links Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
A new study, from Hao Yan and Neal Woodbury from ASU’s Biodesign Institute and colleagues from Harvard and MIT, outlines the design of a synthetic system for energy gathering, conversion and transport that may point the way to innovations in solar energy, materials science, nanotechnology and photonics
Read more about Learning from Photosynthesis
Andrea Miranda, a Rice University doctoral candidate, is one of 52 nationwide selected by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science to participate in its graduate student research program.
Read more about Rice Graduate Student Earns Department of Energy Honor
Through long shifts at the helm of a highly sophisticated microscope, researchers at Stanford University recorded reactions at near-atomic-scale resolution.
Read more about Real-Time Scans of Self-Healing Nanoparticles Show their Energy Storage Potential
If a star blows up anywhere in our galaxy, Indiana University-developed technology may one day directly measure particles from the explosion -- as well as detect the event faster than a telescope.
Read more about Groundbreaking Marks Next Step in IU Physicists' Efforts Toward Creating a 'Supernova Detector'
A team of engineers at Caltech has discovered how to use computer-chip manufacturing technologies to create the kind of reflective materials that make safety vests, running shoes, and road signs appear shiny in the dark.
Read more about Computer Chip Technology Repurposed for Making Reflective Nanostructures
Stanford researchers have for the first time captured the freezing of water, molecule-by-molecule, into a strange, dense form called ice VII (“ice seven”), found naturally in otherworldly environments, such as when icy planetary bodies collide.
Read more about Stanford Scientists Discover How Dense, Extraterrestrial Ice Can Form in Just Billionths of a Second
A research team from Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory have synthesized a two-dimensional structure and successfully trapped argon atoms inside the nanosized pore structure at room temperature.
Read more about Stony Brook Researchers Capture Argon Atoms at Room Temperature with a 2D Structure
When the Benning lab at Michigan State University tried a technique for producing plant biofuels, an unexpected result led to an increase in our basic knowledge of plant biology.
Read more about Squeezing Oil Out of Plants and Into Your Gas Tank: It's Hard.
Stanford associate professor Thomas Jaramillo and SLAC scientist Christopher Hahn have demonstrated the feasibility of designing copper catalysts that convert carbon dioxide into ethanol without corn or other crops.
Read more about Stanford Discovery Could Lead to Sustainable Source of the Fuel Additive Ethanol
A light-sensing pigment found in everything from bacteria to vertebrates can be biochemically manipulated to reset itself, an important therapeutic advantage, according to new research out of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Read more about Newly Discovered Chemical Reaction in Eye May Improve Vision
