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An international team of researchers, led by faculty at the University of Michigan, have found that a layered form of graphene can expel heat efficiently, which is an important feature for its potential applications in building small and powerful electronics.
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One of the study leaders is MIT assistant professor of physics Yen-Jie Lee, who leads MIT’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Group, together with physics professors Gunther Roland and Bolek Wyslouch.
Read more about Latest Experiment at Large Hadron Collider Reports First Results
A new research study by a team of climate researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa explains for the first time the source of near-annual pressure and wind changes discovered previously in the Southeast Asian Monsoon system.
Read more about New Study Explains Near-Annual Monsoon Oscillations Generated by El Nino
University of Oregon scientists show that their nanohoops — known chemically as cycloparaphenylenes —efficiently absorb and distribute energy, and may find a place in solar cells, organic light-emitting diodes or as new sensors or probes for medicine.
Read more about New Oregon Approach for 'Nanohoops' Could Energize Future Devices
The Global Impact Initiative will bolster areas in which MSU already has a strong foundation, such as plant science, engineering, physical science and STEM education, while expanding research in genomics, cybersecurity, computational science and precision medicine.
Read more about MSU to Accelerate Key Research Areas with Global Impact Initiative
Colorado State University is one of 10 institutions in a $13.8 million research grant to improve sorghum as a sustainable source for biofuel production.
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Two teams of researchers – from the Carnegie Institution of Science and from Stanford University School of Medicine – are unraveling the molecular structure of a transport protein that plays a critical role in limiting the sugar supply available to root microbes, an important step in understanding the sugar transport process and energy homeostasis in cells.
Read more about Structure Revealed: Plant Sugar Transporter Involved in Carbon Sequestration
A research team at Arizona State University is uncovering new knowledge about the causes of stress-corrosion cracking in alloys used in pipelines for transporting water, natural gas and fossil fuels — as well as for components used in nuclear power generating stations and the framework of aircraft.
Read more about Research Findings Point Way to Designing Crack-Resistant Metals
Researchers at the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation, an Energy Frontier Research Center at the University of Delaware, have discovered that the imperfect patched surface of a bimetallic catalyst offers better performance than those formed from two perfect concentric circles.
Read more about Patched Atoms: Energy Researchers Discover New Structure for Bimetallic Catalysts
A physics professor at Iowa State, Cochran also manages the U.S. research contributions at ATLAS, one of the one of the huge particle detectors at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
Read more about Change Agent Jim Cochran
Justin Walensky, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Missouri, will receive significant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to further his research into understanding chemical bonding.
Read more about Justin Walensky Receives DOE Funding
Software developed by Duke researchers predicts MRSA’S response to new drug before it’s tested on patients.
Read more about Predicting Superbugs’ Countermoves to New Drugs
