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Tiny airborne particles can have a stronger influence on powerful storms than scientists previously predicted, according to a new study co-authored by University of Maryland researchers.
Read more about Tiny Particles Have Outsized Impact on Storm Clouds and Precipitation
Yale researchers are studying the properties of neutrinos by looking at the data from the Daya Bay experiment, while constructing an experiment called PROSPECT to be installed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Read more about Good PROSPECTs for Neutrino Physics: Yale Leads New Experiment for Weird Neutrino Behavior
Using a newly developed technique, researchers from Japan, Germany and the U.S. have identified a key step in production of hydrogen gas by a bacterial enzyme. Understanding these reactions could be important in developing a clean-fuel economy powered by hydrogen.
Read more about National Clean Energy Week: New X-ray Spectroscopy Explores Hydrogen-Generating Catalyst
Methane in shale gas can be turned into hydrocarbon fuels using an innovative platinum and copper alloy catalyst, according to new research led by UCL (University College London) and Tufts University.
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Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new technique that lets them pinpoint the location of chemical reactions happening inside lithium-ion batteries in three dimensions at the nanoscale level.
Read more about Mapping Nanoscale Chemical Reactions Inside Batteries in 3-D
A gene “genie” developed by Rice University scientists grants researchers valuable data about microbes through puffs of gas from the soil.
Read more about 2-Stage Gas Sensor Reports on Soil Dynamics
With this eye toward the future, the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Washington announced the creation of the Northwest Institute for Materials Physics, Chemistry and Technology — or NW IMPACT — a joint research endeavor to power discoveries and advancements in materials that transform energy, telecommunications, medicine, information technology and other fields.
Read more about UW and PNNL Team Up to Make the Materials of Tomorrow
The Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) has been awarded a $1.1M U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant to elucidate the mechanism of rust pathogenesis in poplar in an effort to engineer durable resistance for this important, second generation biofuel crop.
Read more about IBBR Awarded DOE Grant to Investigate How to Protect an Emerging Biofuel Crop from Disease
Scientists at the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory shed light on how a protein complex, Photosystem I (PSI), plays important roles in protecting plants from excessive sunlight exposure and in helping them navigate old age.
Read more about Reviewing Photosynthesis in Dynamic Conditions: PSI as the Protector
A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has found novel topological phenomena in a different class of systems — open systems, where energy or material can enter or be emitted, as opposed to closed systems with no such exchange with the outside.
Read more about New Exotic Phenomena Seen in Photonic Crystals
An international team of researchers has discovered a new quantitative relation that allows for quick identification of promising material combinations for organic solar cells.
Read more about New Approach Could Quickly Identify Best Organic Solar Cell Mixtures
Northwestern University researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind technique for creating entirely new classes of optical materials and devices that could lead to light bending and cloaking devices.
Read more about New Method Uses DNA, Gold Nanoparticles and Top-Down Lithography to Fabricate Optically Active Structures
