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Material Could Bring Optical Communication Onto Silicon Chips

Researchers at MIT have designed a light-emitter and detector that can be integrated into silicon CMOS chips.

Physics Boosts Artificial Intelligence Methods

Researchers from Caltech and the University of Southern California (USC) report the first application of quantum computing to a physics problem. By employing quantum-compatible machine learning techniques, they developed a method of extracting a rare Higgs boson signal from copious noise data.

Assessment Shows Metagenomics Software Has Much Room for Improvement

A recent critical assessment of software tools represents a key step toward taming the “Wild West” nature of the burgeoning field of metagenomics, said an Oregon State University mathematical biologist who took part in the research.

Printed Meds Could Reinvent Phamracies adn Drug Research

A technology developed at the University Michigan, can print pure, ultra-precise doses of drugs onto a wide variety of surfaces could one day enable on-site printing of custom-dosed medications at pharmacies, hospitals and other locations. Researchers say it could make life easier for patients who must now take multiple medications every day.

Forget Sponges: The Earliest Animals Were Marine Jellies

A team of evolutionary biologists from Vanderbilt University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised a new approach designed specifically to settle contentious phylogenetic tree-of-life issues.

Argon is not the “Dope” for Metallic Hydrogen

Researchers from the Carnegie Institute of Science, Uppsala University and the University of Chicago found that argon-doped hydrogen stayed in its molecular form even up to the highest pressures, unable to force hydrogen into a superconductive, metallic state.

GLBRC Scientists Win DOE funding to Create High-Value Chemicals from Woody Biomass

With up to $1.8 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), scientists affiliated with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) will conduct research with the potential to turn woody biomass into an economical source of renewable chemicals.

Research Center Established to Explore the Least Understood and Strongest Force Behind Visible Matter

Stony Brook University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have established the Center for Frontiers of Nuclear Science to help scientists better understand the building blocks of visible matter.

Puzzling Patches in Earth’s Interior Billions of Years in the Making

A chemical reaction between ancient seawater and iron in Earth’s mantle over eons could explain the formation of mysterious blobs in the planet’s interior that dampen passing seismic waves, Stanford researchers say.

$1.1M DOE Grant Will Help Beef Up Biofuels Through Evolutionary Approaches

Researchers at Michigan State University will use a $1.1 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to fight disease in switchgrass by identifying regions of the genome that cause disease resistance. Locating these disease-fighting regions will help improve switchgrass’ viability.

Bioenergy Giant Sorghum is High in Yield and Potential

Scientists at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) found sorghum has the potential to help produce yet another good thing: environmentally sustainable, bio-based chemicals and fuels.

World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector Finds Big Physics Fingerprint

After more than a year of operation at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the world’s smallest neutrino detector has found a big fingerprint of the elusive, electrically neutral particles that interact only weakly with matter.