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Best of Both Worlds

Metallic glass – with the best properties of glass and metal – offers advantages that will define the future as silicon has defined the information age, according to Takeshi Egami, UT-ORNL Distinguished Scientist and professor of materials science and engineering.

OSU Scientist Leads Massive Drought Research Project

A new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution brought together 62 scientists, led by Henry Adams at Oklahoma State University, from across the globe to synthesize all known research from drought manipulation studies that killed trees to develop a more accurate land-surface prediction model.

Dark Energy Survey Offers New View of Dark Matter Halos

Using data from the first year of the Dark Energy Survey, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago provide evidence that dark matter halos around galaxy clusters have an edge due to the “splashback effect.”

GLBRC Celebrates 1,000th Publication

The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), one of three bioenergy research centers established in 2007 by the Biological and Environmental Research program in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science, recently published its 1,000th scientific paper.

Rutgers Physics Student Wins Three National Graduate Fellowships

Jennifer Coulter, a senior honored with a prestigious Goldwater scholarship last year, chose the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. She will begin her studies in the applied physics program at Harvard University this fall and pursue a doctorate in physics.

Researchers Describe Cell Structures, Mechanisms that Enable Bacteria to Resist Antibiotics

Iowa State University's Edward Yu and his research group recently published two papers describing the efflux pumps and transporters that certain disease-causing bacteria use to keep antibiotics away.

Soil Researchers Quantify an Important, Underappreciated Factor in Carbon Release to the Atmosphere

Biogeochemist Marco Keiluweit at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues elsewhere for the first time provide evidence that anaerobic microsites play a much larger role in stabilizing carbon in soils than previously thought.

Reaching for Neutron Stars

For more than a decade, a cross-disciplinary team of chemists and physicists in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis has been chasing the atomic nucleus. With progressive studies, they moved up the element chain to Calcium-48, an extremely rare solid commodity that has more neutrons than protons and, as such, carries a hefty price tag of $100,000 per gram.

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New Form of Carbon that's Hard as a Rock, Yet Elastic, Like Rubber

A team including several Carnegie scientists has developed a form of ultrastrong, lightweight carbon that is also elastic and electrically conductive. A material with such a unique combination of properties could serve a wide variety of applications from aerospace engineering to military armor.

ASU-led Scientists Discover Why Rocks Flow Slowly in Earth's Middle Mantle

A recent study, led by Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration Associate Professor Dan Shim, has re-created in the laboratory the conditions found deep in the earth, and used this to discover an important property of the dominant mineral in Earth's mantle, a region lying far below our feet.

Triple Play Boosting Value of Renewable Fuel Could Tip Market in Favor of Biomass

UW–Madison researchers and collaborators have developed a new “green” technology for converting non-edible biomass into three high-value chemicals that are the basis for products traditionally made from petroleum.

Discovery of an Alga’s ‘Dictionary of Genes’ Could Lead to Advances in Biofuels and Medicine

Plant biologists and biochemists from UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco have produced a gold mine of data by sequencing the genome of a green alga called Chromochloris zofingiensis.