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Catching and Releasing Tiny Molecules

A team of Harvard scientists have demonstrated a new technique for sorting biomolecules that could lead to efficient clinical diagnostics and chemical purification.

Bacteria Could Help Clean Groundwater Contaminated by Uranium Ore Processing

Scientists at Rutgers University have discovered a bacterium in soil at an ore mill in Colorado that essentially breathes uranium and renders it immobile.

New Transitory Form of Silica Observed

A Carnegie-led team was able to discover five new forms of silica under extreme pressures at room temperature.

Bucky-Balls Become Buckybombs

Scientists at USC modify bucky-balls so they explode when heated, which may have potential for killing cancer cells.

Discovery Paves Way for New Kinds of Superconducting Electronics

Physicists at UC San Diego have developed a new way to control the transport of electrical currents through high-temperature superconductors—materials discovered nearly 30 years ago that lose all resistance to electricity at commercially attainable low temperatures.

Surendranath Receives Department of Energy Early Career Award

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected MIT Professor Yogesh Surendranath for a 2015 Early Career Research Program award. This highly competitive program supports exceptional researchers early in their careers, when many scientists do their most formative work.

Unlocking the Biofuel Energy Stored in Plant Cell Walls

Penn State scientists are studying how the cell walls are made, information that could lead to better ways of harvesting the energy stored in their chemical bonds.

3D “Nanobridges” Formed Using Electron Beam Writing with Tiny Jets of Liquid Precursor

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a process for creating complex, three-dimensional, nanoscale structures - 5,000 times faster than present techniques.

Scientists Create Atomically Thin Metallic Boron

A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern University and Stony Brook University has, for the first time, created a two-dimensional sheet of boron -- a material known as borophene.

Gamma Rays From Distant Galaxy Tell Story of an Escape

New observations from VERITAS and other telescopes advance understanding of blazars as cosmic accelerators and as beacons for gamma-ray cosmology.

Three Princeton Teams Receive INCITE Supercomputing Grants

Three projects based at Princeton University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have received a total of 162 million processor hours on the two most powerful computers in the nation dedicated to open science thanks to Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) grants from the U.S. Department of Energy.

A New Fusion Collaboration for MIT

Members of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) community are cheering the start of a long-anticipated physics experiment at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany.