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Imaging Electric Charge Propagating Along Microbial Nanowires

UMass Amherst researchers resolve a major biological controversy.

Magnetic Fields Make the Excitons Go ’Round

MIT theorists find a new way to improve efficiency of solar cells by overcoming exciton “traps.”

Iowa State Physicists Among Teams Preparing for New Energy Department Supercomputer

A team of Iowa State University nuclear physicists is preparing to scale up its computer codes for Cori, the next-generation supercomputer being developed by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center.

Nanoparticles Get a Magnetic Handle

New method at MIT produces particles that can glow with color-coded light and be manipulated with magnets.

New Catalyst Could Improve Biofuels Production

Washington State University researchers have developed a new catalyst that could lead to making biofuels cheaply and more efficiently.

Unconventional Photoconduction in an Atomically Thin Semiconductor

Researchers at MIT find new mechanism of photoconduction could lead to next-generation excitonic devices.

Oxides Discovered by CCNY Team Could Advance Memory Devices

Researchers at The City College of New York led by chemist Stephen O’Brien have discovered new complex oxides that exhibit both magnetic and ferroelectric properties.

UChicago-Argonne National Lab Team Improves Solar-cell Efficiency

Researchers identified a new polymer—a type of large molecule that forms plastics and other familiar materials—that improved the efficiency of solar cells.

Sparkling Threads With Exceptional Properties

Penn State University researchers create super-strong, super-thin diamond nanothreads.

Graphene Flaws Key to Creating Hypersensitive ‘Electronic Nose’

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a way to create a highly sensitive chemical sensor based on the crystalline flaws in graphene sheets.

Angles and Athletes

University of Vermont researchers look at the relationship between joint geometry and the risk of knee injury.

Newly Discovered Microbe Is Key in Climate Change

Research led by University of Arizona scientists, shows that a single species of microbe, discovered only recently, is an unexpected key player in climate change.