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Bucky-Balls Become Buckybombs

Scientists at USC modify bucky-balls so they explode when heated, which may have potential for killing cancer cells.

Discovery Paves Way for New Kinds of Superconducting Electronics

Physicists at UC San Diego have developed a new way to control the transport of electrical currents through high-temperature superconductors—materials discovered nearly 30 years ago that lose all resistance to electricity at commercially attainable low temperatures.

Surendranath Receives Department of Energy Early Career Award

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected MIT Professor Yogesh Surendranath for a 2015 Early Career Research Program award. This highly competitive program supports exceptional researchers early in their careers, when many scientists do their most formative work.

3D “Nanobridges” Formed Using Electron Beam Writing with Tiny Jets of Liquid Precursor

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a process for creating complex, three-dimensional, nanoscale structures - 5,000 times faster than present techniques.

Unlocking the Biofuel Energy Stored in Plant Cell Walls

Penn State scientists are studying how the cell walls are made, information that could lead to better ways of harvesting the energy stored in their chemical bonds.

Gamma Rays From Distant Galaxy Tell Story of an Escape

New observations from VERITAS and other telescopes advance understanding of blazars as cosmic accelerators and as beacons for gamma-ray cosmology.

Scientists Create Atomically Thin Metallic Boron

A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern University and Stony Brook University has, for the first time, created a two-dimensional sheet of boron -- a material known as borophene.

A New Fusion Collaboration for MIT

Members of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) community are cheering the start of a long-anticipated physics experiment at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany.

Three Princeton Teams Receive INCITE Supercomputing Grants

Three projects based at Princeton University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have received a total of 162 million processor hours on the two most powerful computers in the nation dedicated to open science thanks to Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) grants from the U.S. Department of Energy.

IU Biologists Partner Bacterium with Nitrogen Gas to Produce More, Cleaner Bioethanol

Indiana University biologists believe they have found a faster, cheaper and cleaner way to increase bioethanol production by using nitrogen gas, the most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere, in place of more costly industrial fertilizers.

UT Arlington Awarded Department of Energy Grant to Develop Sensor System for Real-Time Evaluation of Boilers

A University of Texas at Arlington engineering professor is developing a distributed wireless antenna sensor system to monitor conditions of coal-fired boilers that will lead to making the units safer, more efficient and eventually producing better designed units.

Team Led by UCLA and Columbia Engineers Uses Disorder to Control Light on a Nanoscale

Findings could lead to more precise information transfer in computer chips and other applications.