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Research Findings Point Way to Designing Crack-Resistant Metals

A research team at Arizona State University is uncovering new knowledge about the causes of stress-corrosion cracking in alloys used in pipelines for transporting water, natural gas and fossil fuels — as well as for components used in nuclear power generating stations and the framework of aircraft.

Justin Walensky Receives DOE Funding

Justin Walensky, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Missouri, will receive significant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to further his research into understanding chemical bonding.

Physicists Solve Low-Temperature Magnetic Mystery

Researchers at the University of Connecticut have made an experimental breakthrough in explaining a rare property of an exotic magnetic material, potentially opening a path to a host of new technologies

Iowa State Physicists Ready for the Higher Energies of Run II at the Large Hadron Collider

Four Iowa State physicists and their team of postdoctoral research associates and graduate students are ready for some new data from the second run of the 17-miles-around collider near Geneva, Switzerland.

Arthur Bienenstock Honored with First Endowed Professorship to Link SLAC and Stanford

The holder of the Wallenberg-Bienenstock Professorship will have a joint appointment on the faculties of SLAC and a Stanford science or engineering department. The professorship honors Bienenstock for his efforts to strengthen ties between Stanford and Swedish universities.

Carnegie Mellon University Chemists Create Tiny Gold Nanoparticles That Reflect Nature’s Patterns

New research from Carnegie Mellon chemists has revealed that tiny, synthetic gold nanoparticles exhibit some of nature’s most intricate patterns.

Once More Unto the Breach

As the Large Hadron Collider commences its second run, University of California Santa Barbara researchers ready themselves again to reverse engineer the universe.

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Physicists Celebrate Second Act of Large Hadron Collider

Several UC Riverside physicists are involved in research using one of the four particle detectors at the collider.

NIU Physicists Excited About Restart of Large Hadron Collider

Scientists from the Northern Illinois University physics department are preparing to join thousands of their international colleagues to study the highest-energy particle collisions ever achieved in the laboratory.

UW Apparatus Measures Single Electron’s Radiation to Try to Weigh a Neutrino

University of Washington physicists are part of a team that made a step forward in their efforts to pin down the mass of a neutrino, an elusive subatomic particle that played a role in the formation of the universe.

UAlbany-led Study Finds Vibration Theory of Odor Perception Implausible

An international team of scientists led by University at Albany Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Eric Block, have demonstrated that the vibrational theory of olfaction, one of the two major theories explaining how the sense of smell functions, is not plausible.

U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary Franklin Orr Visits WEI

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Under Secretary for Science Franklin “Lynn” Orr visited the Wisconsin Energy Institute (WEI) on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 to learn more about the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s energy research and to do a “deep dive” into the research of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC).