2017

Zwicky Transient Facility Opens Its Eyes to the Volatile Cosmos

A new robotic camera with the ability to capture hundreds of thousands of stars and galaxies in a single shot has taken its first image of the sky, an event astronomers refer to as "first light."

Iowa State Named a Partner in New Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Center

Iowa State University is a partner institution in a new, $104 million research center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the project will study the next generation of plant-based, sustainable, cost-effective biofuels and bioproducts.

Protecting Plants from the Power of Sunlight

Steffie Tietz, a former post-doc in the Kramer lab at Michigan State University, is proposing a way to measure, in realtime, how plants prevent burn out from too much sunlight.

Neutrino Project to Fuel Particle Physics Research

South Dakota State University researchers are doing preliminary work on an international physics research project that will push the limits of engineering and could lead to new discoveries in particle physics.

Scientists Discover New Magnet with Nearly Massless Charge Carriers

Researchers in the Louisiana Consortium for Neutron Scattering working with colleagues from Louisiana State University, Tulane University, Oak Ridge National Lab, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, and the University of New Orleans are reporting topological behavior in a magnet made of novel quantum materials that results in a substantial reduction in heat production and energy savings.

Restoring Loss: Bio-inspired Materials Give Boost to Regenerative Medicine

Arizona State University researchers working in tech field that could one day help treat diseases including stroke, heart attacks, Parkinson’s and arthritis.

Duke Scientists Collaborate to Measure Elusive Neutrino Behavior

The COHERENT Collaboration team announced the observation of a tiny bump created when a neutrino ricocheted off an atomic nucleus, an effect called coherent elastic scattering, detected at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Tiny Terahertz Laser Could be Used for Imaging, Chemical Detection

Researchers at MIT and colleagues at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Toronto describe a novel design that boosts the power output of chip-mounted terahertz lasers by 80 percent.

Landscapes Give Latitude to 2-D Material Designers

Rice lab of theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson and colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are combining theory and experimentation to prove it’s possible to give 2-D materials specific defects, especially atomic-scale seams called grain boundaries.