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Device Delivers Drugs to Brain Via Remote Control

A team of researchers has developed a wireless device the width of a human hair that can be implanted in the brain and activated by remote control to deliver drugs.

Boosting Biofuel Production

Chemical engineers and biologists at MIT have found a simple way to make yeast produce more ethanol from sugars: Spike the mixture they’re growing on with two common chemicals.

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As Giant Physics Machine Restarts, Essential Role for UW Continues

Wesley Smith, a UW-Madison physicist, is overseeing the ultrafast sifting and winnowing procedure for the CMS (compact muon solenoid) experiment, one of two general purpose detectors at history's largest scientific project, the Large Hadron Collider.

Solving Mysteries of Conductivity in Polymers

Researchers at MIT and Brookhaven National Laboratory discover materials seen as promising for optoelectronics and thermoelectric devices finally yield their secrets.

Climate Change, Plant Roots May Accelerate Carbon Loss From Soils, Say OSU Researchers

Soil, long thought to be a semi-permanent storehouse for ancient carbon, may be releasing carbon dioxide to the atmosphere faster than anyone thought, according to Oregon State University soil scientists.

After 85-Year Search, Massless Particle with Promise for Next-Generation Electronics Discovered

An international team led by Princeton University scientists has discovered an elusive massless particle theorized 85 years ago that could give rise to faster and more efficient electronics because of its unusual ability to behave as matter and antimatter inside a crystal, according to new research.

Biology, Not Just Physics, Controls Release of Scent Compounds From Plants

Purdue University research suggests active biological mechanisms transport scent and taste compounds known as volatiles from plant cells to the atmosphere, a finding that could overturn the textbook model of volatile emission as a process that occurs solely by diffusion.

Breeding Higher Yielding Crops by Increasing Sugar Import Into Seeds

A team of scientists led by Carnegie’s Wolf Frommer has now discovered that a sugar-transport protein in maize and rice called SWEET4 is both necessary for successful seed filling and shows genome changes that indicate domestication by humans.

Cultivating Crystals

An international group of researchers that includes the University of Delaware’s Adam Wallace has shown how nature uses a variety of pathways to grow crystals that go beyond the classical, one-atom-at-a-time route.

Study of Cloud Cover in Tropical Pacific Reveals Future Climate Changes

Findings from researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science provide new evidence that climate change in the tropical Pacific will result in changes in rainfall patterns in the region and amplify warming near the equator in the future

Diamonds May Not Be So Rare As Once Thought

Using a chemical model, Johns Hopkins scientists found that diamonds could be born deep in the Earth during a natural chemical reaction that is simpler than the two main processes that up to now have been understood to produce them.

New ‘Geospeedometer’ Confirms Super-Eruptions Have a Short Fuse

A team of geologists from Vanderbilt University have developed a new “geospeedometer” that they argue can help resolve this controversy by providing direct measurements of how long the most explosive types of magma existed as melt-rich bodies of crystal-poor magma before they erupted