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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have taken a significant step toward the development of a battery that could outperform the lithium-ion technology used in electric cars such as the Chevy Volt.
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New research from a team including Carnegie’s Elissaios Stavrou, Xiao-Jia Chen, and Alexander Goncharov hones in on the structural changes underlying superconductivity in iron arsenide compounds—those containing iron and arsenic.
Read more about Linking Superconductivity and Structure
Tabletop setup provides more nuanced picture of heat production in microelectronics.
Read more about A New Tool Developed at MIT Measures the Distance Between Phonon Collisions
University of Oklahoma Professor Jizhong Zhou will receive the U.S Department of Energy’s highest scientific award from U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz in a ceremony in Washington, D.C., later this year.
Read more about OU Professor Named Recipient of Prestigious Department of Energy Lawrence Award
Researchers at Northwestern University have found that adding sodium produces material that is more efficient at converting heat to electricity.
Read more about Doping Powers New Thermoelectric Material
A team of scientists at Vanderbilt University, the National University of Singapore, Rutgers, and The State University of New Jersey are studying enzymes to efficiently transform ethanol made from cellulose into a major new renewable fuel source.
Read more about Anatomy of a Microscopic Wood Chipper: New Observations Reveal How an Individual Cellulase Enzyme Operates
Nanfang Yu, assistant professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, and colleagues from the University of Zürich and the University of Washington, have discovered two key strategies that enable Saharan silver ants to stay cool in one of the hottest terrestrial environments on Earth.
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Study at MIT finds a natural impediment to the long-term sequestration of carbon dioxide.
Read more about Sequestration on Shaky Ground
Researchers at Princeton University have found that the common test of bouncing a household battery to learn if it is dead or not is not actually an effective way to check a battery's charge.
Read more about Battery Bounce Test Often Bounces Off Target
Research led by a University of New Hampshire professor has identified a new source of methane for gas -- hydrates ice-like substances found in sediment that trap methane within the crystal structure of frozen water -- in the Arctic Ocean.
Read more about UNH Geologist Identifies New Source of Methane for Gas Hydrates in Arctic
The grant allows Chapman researchers to participate in the SPRUCE project by investigating the controls of the production and release of the greenhouse gas methane in this ecosystem.
Read more about Chapman University Named as Department of Energy $1.5 Million Grant Recipient Focusing on Climate Change
University of California, Berkeley, scientists have identified more than 35 new groups of bacteria, clarifying a mysterious branch of the tree of life that has been hazy because these microbes can’t be reared and studied in the lab.
Read more about Newfound Groups of Bacteria Are Mixing Up the Tree of Life
