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Nuclear Spins Control Current in Plastic LED

University of Utah physicists are making steps toward quantum computing, spintronic memory, and better displays.

Finding Answers to Basic Questions About the Universe

UC Riverside graduate students make significant contributions to particle physics research at CERN.

Finding Discovery Through Frustration

Researchers at the University of New Mexico discover catalytic converter breakthrough in automobiles.

Lucky Star Escapes Black Hole With Minor Damage

Astronomers at The Ohio State University have gotten the closest look yet at what happens when a black hole takes a bite out of a star—and the star lives to tell the tale.

Stanford Scientists Create a 'Smart' Lithium-ion Battery That Warns of Potential Fire Hazards

Stanford's Yi Cui and colleagues have created a lithium-ion battery that alerts users of potential overheating and fire.

Three Bay Area Institutions Join Forces to Seed Transformative Brain Research

Six researchers from UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory sketched out their teams’ bold plans to jump-start new brain research.

Making Oxygen Before Life

UC Davis graduate student Zhou Lu, working with professors in the Departments of Chemistry and of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has shown that oxygen can be formed in one step by using a high energy vacuum ultraviolet laser to excite carbon dioxide.

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Unstoppable Magnetoresistance

Researchers at Princeton University discover a material with “colossal magnetoresistance” which could point to new developments in the storage of electronic information.

2-D Materials' Crystalline Defects Key to New Properties

Understanding how atoms "glide" and "climb" on the surface of 2D crystals like tungsten disulphide may pave the way for researchers to develop materials with unusual or unique characteristics.

Longstanding Bottleneck in Crystal Structure Prediction Solved

Researchers at Princeton University have discovered a way to compute the lattice energy of a structure with sufficient resolution to distinguish the actual arrangement of the atoms and reveal the structure among several similar and competing forms.

Adding Natural Uncertainty Improves Mathematical Models

Mathematicians from Brown University have introduced a new element of uncertainty into an equation used to describe the behavior of fluid flows.

Researchers Get $5.25M to Advance Nuclear Technologies in S. Carolina

A team of environmental scientists and engineers from Clemson University, the University of South Carolina and South Carolina State University will use grant to make a direct positive impact on South Carolina in the advancement of monitoring, remediation and disposal of radioactive contaminants.