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Using a chemical model, Johns Hopkins scientists found that diamonds could be born deep in the Earth during a natural chemical reaction that is simpler than the two main processes that up to now have been understood to produce them.
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Findings from researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science provide new evidence that climate change in the tropical Pacific will result in changes in rainfall patterns in the region and amplify warming near the equator in the future
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A team of geologists from Vanderbilt University have developed a new “geospeedometer” that they argue can help resolve this controversy by providing direct measurements of how long the most explosive types of magma existed as melt-rich bodies of crystal-poor magma before they erupted
Read more about New ‘Geospeedometer’ Confirms Super-Eruptions Have a Short Fuse
A Dartmouth-led study sheds light on the impact of plasma waves on high-energy electrons streaking into Earth's magnetic field from space.
Read more about Dartmouth-Led Study Explores Wave-Particle Interaction in Atmosphere
Jack Gilbert, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago and group leader for microbial ecology at Argonne, is one of the founding members of the Unified Microbiome Initiative (UMI) governing board.
Read more about Why Scientists are Teaming up to Study the Microbiome: A Q&A with Jack Gilbert
Working off data acquired at the DOE’s Advanced Light Source, researchers have discovered the structural basis by which bacteria are able to capture genetic information from viruses and other foreign invaders for use in their own immunological system.
Read more about How Bacteria Vaccinate Themselves Against Viruses
In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a Yale-led research team explored differences in ocean temperatures over the last 5 million years.
Read more about Ocean Temperatures of the Past May Tell Us About Global Climate Patterns of the Future
As interest in biofuels has surged in recent years, the question about how to best handle lignin—a material found in the cell walls of plants that is a byproduct of biofuel production—has become a primary concern. Thanks to ongoing research being led in part by Art Ragauskas, UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair for Biorefining, an answer to that problem could be just over the horizon.
Read more about UT-Led Research Benefiting Alternate Fuels and Materials
Scientists studying microbiomes have created a framework for predicting how the composition of these complex microbial communities may respond to changing conditions.
Read more about UCI-Led Study Offers Model to Predict How Microbiomes May Respond to Change
Researchers from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Penn State have developed a two-step workflow to optimize metabolic networks for the production of chemical products and biofuels.
Read more about Researchers Design Computational Tool to Prospect Novel Bioconversion Pathways
A new discovery by physicists at the University of Maryland could hold the key to the construction of inexpensive, broadly useful, and portable particle accelerators in the very near future.
Read more about UMD Discovery Could Enable Portable Particle Accelerators
Kefeng Xin, a graduate student at Rice, is one of a handful of primary authors who revealed evidence this week that the attractive force between antiprotons is similar to that between protons — and measured it.
Read more about Antimatter Not So Different After All
