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One of the key holdups in the march toward more efficient sustainable energy could soon be answered thanks, in part, to UT researchers.
Read more about UT Engineers Helping ORNL with Key Sustainable Energy Riddle
Using one of the largest supercomputers in the world, a team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota has identified potential materials that could improve the production of ethanol and petroleum products
Read more about Researchers Identify Materials to Improve Biofuel and Petroleum Processing
A new study by a team of physicists at Rice University bolster theory that quantum fluctuations drive strange electronic phenomena.
Read more about Evidence Mounts for Quantum Criticality Theory
Researchers at Caltech University, University of Chicago, and the Argonne National Laboratory recently used a synchrotron X-ray source to investigate the existence of instabilities in the arrangement of the electrons in metals, and to pinpoint, for the first time, how those instabilities arise.
Read more about Caltech Announces Discovery in Fundamental Physics
The DOE’s Office of High Energy Physics announced the award recommendation as part of its Cosmic Frontier and Intensity Frontier research programs.
Read more about Department of Energy Approves $1.1 Million to Fund Underground Physics Research at SD Mines
The makers of beer, wine, biofuels and other products that depend on yeasts may soon have many more strains of the microorganism to work with, thanks to a new method for making interspecies yeast hybrids in the lab.
Read more about New Way to Make Yeast Hybrids May Inspire New Brews and Biofuels
Stanford scientists have created a new carbon material that significantly improves the performance of batteries and supercapacitors.
Read more about New 'Designer Carbon' from Stanford Boosts Battery Performance
The center is headquartered at Argonne, which is managed by UChicago Argonne LLC, with co-investigators from several universities, including the University of Chicago, Northwestern, Notre Dame, the University of Michigan and University of California, Davis.
Read more about Department of Energy Creates Center for Computational Materials at Argonne
A team of researchers, including NC State physicist Dean Lee, used lattice simulations and a theoretical framework called chiral effective field theory to describe the low-energy interactions of protons and neutrons, leading to improved calculations to describe how nature produces elements.
Read more about Researchers Simulate Scattering of Helium Nuclei within Stars
Benedict University professor Monica Tischler is investigating 150 year-old bird eggs at the Advanced Photon Source, using advanced X-ray equipment to detect metals and inorganic pollutants.
Read more about Benedictine University Professor’s Egg Research Hatches New Discoveries on Environmental Change
Researchers University of Maryland’s Department of Materials Science and the Institute for Systems Research have found a way to coat corrosive but highly energetic lithium metal anodes with an atoms-thick layer of alumina to make lithium-ion batteries last longer.
Read more about Aluminum-Atom Coating Could Revive Lithium Anodes' Use
Researchers at Brandeis University use Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source to help discover how Gleevec successfully battles cancer.
Read more about Evolution May Hold the Key to Rational Drug Design
