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Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have developed a relatively inexpensive and simple way to split water into hydrogen and oxygen through a new electrodeposition method.
Read more about New Way to Store Solar Energy Could Lead to More Common Solar Cell Usage
New work from a team led by Carnegie’s Wolf Frommer identifies biochemical pathways necessary for stocking the seed’s food supplies. These findings could be targeted when engineering crops for higher yields.
Read more about Food-delivery Process Inside Seeds Revealed
Matthew Burton, a graduate student at William and Mary, is part of the effort to build a better accelerator at Jefferson Lab.
Read more about Grad Student Works Toward Next Generation Particle Accelerator
Researchers at MIT and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new type of catalyst that can be tuned to promote desired chemical reactions, potentially enabling the replacement of expensive and rare metals in fuel cells.
Read more about Inexpensive New Catalysts Can Be Fine-Tuned
Sunlight makes the new “aqueous solar flow” battery 20 percent more efficient than today’s lithium-iodine batteries.
Read more about New Design Brings World’s First Solar Battery to Performance Milestone
With funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers at Washington State University and seven other institutions are investigating the development of sorghum crops that can grow in marginal soils with scant water and nitrogen yet produce large quantities of quality plant materials for brewing biofuels.
Read more about Seeking New Sorghum, the ‘Camel of Crops,’ for Biofuels
A team of researchers from Arizona State University and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab has discovered that thousands of bacteria living in soil are connected by a complex metabolic relationship.
Read more about ASU Research Team Digs Up the Dirt on Microscopic Biodiversity
Lack of adequate sleep can do more than just make you tired. It could short-circuit your system and interfere with a fundamental cellular process that drives physical growth, physiological adaptation, and even brain activity, according to a new University of Tennessee study.
Read more about Lack of ZZZZs May Zap Cell Growth, Brain Activity
New research by a team of international scientists led by Michigan State University has engineered the receptor for jasmonate, a plant hormone that plays a central role in plant defense, to fend off stealthy attacks from highly evolved pathogens.
Read more about Protecting Plants From Stealthy Diseases
A Purdue University-led team of researchers observed electrons transition from a topologically ordered phase to a broken symmetry phase.
Read more about Purdue Researchers Observe Phase Transition Thought Impossible
Scientists have predicted a new phase of superionic ice, a special form of ice that could exist on Uranus and Neptune, in a theoretical study performed by a team of researchers at Princeton University.
Read more about Scientists Predict Cool New Phase of Superionic Ice
Physicists from Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin have found a new recipe for using intense lasers to create positrons — the antiparticle of electrons — in record numbers and density.
Read more about Positrons are Plentiful in Ultra-Intense Laser Blasts
