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The Changing Chemistry of the Amazonian Atmosphere

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have quantified the effect of NOx pollution on OH radicals in the Amazon rainforest.

Fine-Tuning Fusion

Theresa Wilks has come full circle, at least geographically. After receiving a master's and PhD from Georgia Tech, she returned to her home state of California in 2016 as an MIT postdoc doing fusion energy research at the DIII-D tokamak, a national fusion reactor in San Diego.

Engineering, LSA Faculty to Pursue Batter Breakthroughs as Part of Nationwide Battery Initiative

Five University of Michigan faculty will be part of the second five-year phase of the Joint Center for Energy Storage (JCESR) research, an ambitious Department of Energy project aimed at breaking the scientific barriers to realizing next-generation batteries.

Venkata Srinu Bhadram Receives Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence Award

Venkata Srinu Bhadram in Timothy Strobel’s lab at the Geophysical Laboratory (GL) will receive the ninth Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence Award (PIE). The recipients are awarded a cash prize for their exceptionally creative approaches to science, strong mentoring, and contributing to the sense of campus community.

Imaging Technique Pulls Plasmon Data Together

Rice University scientists have developed a novel technique to view a field of plasmonic nanoparticles simultaneously to learn how their differences change their reactivity.

Better Water Purification Methods Are Aim of New Research Center

With rising demand and dwindling supply, water is perhaps Earth’s most critical natural resource. One way to get more of it is to find more creative approaches — and new materials — to use and reuse existing water and improve upon existing water purification methods. That is the focus of the Center for Materials for Water and Energy SysTems (M-WET), a new multi-university research center headquartered in The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, uniting researchers from UT; the University of California, Santa Barbara; and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Experiments using Diamond Anvils Yield New Insight into the Deep Earth

Earth scientists at Caltech find evidence that suggests subducting slabs of the earth's crust may generate unusual features spotted near the core.

Rice U. Study Sheds Light On – and Through – 2D Materials

Rice University scientists have now produced a method to determine the properties of atom-thin materials that promise to refine the modulation and manipulation of light.

UCR Graduate Student Headed to Oak Ridge National Lab

Victor Fung, a graduate student in chemistry, is one of 60 students from across the country selected for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program.

‘Exceptional’ Research Points Way Toward Quantum Discoveries

Rice University scientists used nanotube films and polarized light to strongly couple light and matter progressively and on demand at room temperature.

Underground Neutrino Experiment Sets the Stage for Deep Discovery About Matter

Collaborators of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an experiment led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and including researchers at the University of Washington, have shown they can shield a sensitive, scalable 44-kilogram germanium detector array from background radioactivity.

Spring Hill College & University of Alabama Chemistry Professors Awarded Major Grant

Allyn Schoeffler, PhD, assistant professor of chemistry at Spring Hill College will analyze the 3-D structure of the erythromycin resistance methyltransferase and its molecular target using high-powered X-rays at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, a state-of-the-art scientific facility run jointly by Stanford University and the United States Department of Energy.