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New Design Brings World’s First Solar Battery to Performance Milestone

Sunlight makes the new “aqueous solar flow” battery 20 percent more efficient than today’s lithium-iodine batteries.

ASU Research Team Digs Up the Dirt on Microscopic Biodiversity

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.

New Way to Store Solar Energy Could Lead to More Common Solar Cell Usage

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.

Seeking New Sorghum, the ‘Camel of Crops,’ for Biofuels

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.

Protecting Plants From Stealthy Diseases

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.

Lack of ZZZZs May Zap Cell Growth, Brain Activity

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.

Purdue Researchers Observe Phase Transition Thought Impossible

A Purdue University-led team of researchers observed electrons transition from a topologically ordered phase to a broken symmetry phase.

Scientists Predict Cool New Phase of Superionic Ice

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.

Positrons are Plentiful in Ultra-Intense Laser Blasts

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.

Researchers Create Better Algorithm for Simulating Particles in Fermi Sea

A North Carolina State University physicist and his German colleagues have created a new, more precise algorithm for simulating particle interactions when a single impurity is introduced into a Fermi sea.

DOE Funding Leads to New Technology that is Revolutionizing Chemical Analysis

A universal carbon detection technology discovered by researchers at the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI), an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Basic Energy Sciences, is the basis for a newly developed reactor technology commercialized by Activated Research Company (ARC).

ISU Faculty Contribute to Large Hadron Collider, ATLAS

Jim Cochran, a professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University, not only has the responsibilities of a professor but also helps oversee the Large Hadron Collider and the U.S. ATLAS experiment, two of the largest science experiments of all time in terms of scale.