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A team of University of Illinois engineers is observing the interactions of colloidal gold nanoparticles inside tiny aquariumlike sample containers to gain more control over the self-assembly process of engineered materials.
Read more about Tiny Aquariums Put Nanoparticle Self-Assembly on Display
A dust storm that blanketed seven nations in the Middle East in late summer 2015 was caused by climate factors and unusual weather, not human conflict in Syria, concluded researchers from Princeton, Marquette, Boston, Duke Universities and the Agricultural Research Organization.
Read more about Giant Middle East Dust Storm Caused by a Changing Climate, Not Human Conflict
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one of the world’s largest independent plant science institutes, today announced a 5-year $16 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Read more about U.S. Department of Energy Awards Danforth Center $16M to Enhance Sorghum for Bioenergy
David Mechem, an associate professor in the Department of Geography & Atmospheric Science at the University of Kansas, is leading a new $525,000, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to better understand the fundamental processes governing the behavior of shallow clouds, the low-hanging cottony clouds often seen on a summer day or over ocean waters.
Read more about New Research on Shallow Warm Clouds will Advance Climate Models and Weather Forecasts
Jesus Perez, an applied physics major at Cal State San Marcos, served as a fall intern for the Science of Undergraduate Laboratory Internships program at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey.
Read more about Physics Student Thrives at Princeton Internship
Clarkson Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor David Mitlin and Assistant Professor Eunsu Paek have received a prestigious and highly competitive grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences to perform research on high energy – high power battery materials that use sodium instead of lithium.
Read more about Clarkson University’s Mitlin & Paek Win DOE Basic Energy Science Grant
The world of forest ants may provide a macrocosm of the complex reactions and interactions among species affected by global climate change, according to a research project involving Bowling Green State University biologist Dr. Shannon Pelini.
Read more about Pelini Ant Research Provides Long-Term Look at Effects of Climate Change
Thijs Heus, an assistant professor of physics at Cleveland State University, has received a $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to better model cloud size and enhance understanding of how small and large clouds impact solar reflectivity, vertical transport of heat and moisture, as well as precipitation.
Read more about Research Seeks to Transform Weather Predication/Climate Modeling
According to 33 years of remote sensing data, productivity of U.S. grasslands is more sensitive to dryness of the atmosphere than precipitation, important information for understanding how ecosystems will respond to climate change.
Read more about Stanford Study Shows U.S. Grasslands ffected More by Atmospheric Dryness than Precipitation
Faster, more efficient data storage and computer logic systems could be on the horizon thanks to a new way of tuning electronic energy levels in two-dimensional films of crystal, discovered by researchers at MIT.
Read more about Toward “Valleytronic” Devices for Data Storage or Computer Logic Systems
The combination of prolonged hot spells with poor air quality greatly compounds the negative effects of each and can pose a major risk to human health, according to new research from the University of California, Irvine.
Read more about Concurrent Heat Waves, Air Pollution Exacerbate Negative Health Effects of Each
UC Davis chemists just discovered a whole new class of clathrates, potentially opening new ways to make and apply these materials.
Read more about New Types of Structures for Cage-Like Clathrates
