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According to a UNL news release, the five-year grant, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, intends to help researchers better understand how plants and microbes interact and continue to learn about the growth patterns of sorghum.
Read more about UNL Receives $13.5 Million Biofuel Research Grant
Using holography and an airplane laboratory, a team led by Michigan Tech found distinct mixing patterns in cloud droplets.
Read more about New HOLODEC Study in Science on Using Holography to Better Understand Clouds
Researchers from North Carolina State University, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and UNSW Australia have measured the behavior of specific atoms in dielectric materials when exposed to an electric field.
Read more about Researchers Measure How Specific Atoms Move in Dielectric Materials
Scientists at the University of Illinois have found that most carbon emissions models overestimate the capacity of regrowing forests to take in carbon.
Read more about Study Shows New Forests Cannot Take in as Much Carbon as Predicted
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program awarded SDSU mechanical engineering researcher and assistant professor Ilenia Battiato with a competitive award grant to advance her research.
Read more about $12.5 Million Added to Research Funds
Platinum is a highly reactive and in-demand catalyst across the chemical and energy industries, but a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Georgia Institute of Technology scientists could reduce the world’s dependence on this scarce and expensive metal.
Read more about New Catalyst Does More With Less Platinum
A team of investigators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Michigan State University have created a process for making the work environment less toxic—literally—for the organisms that do the heavy lifting in the increasingly important field of bioproducts derived from cellulosic biomass.
Read more about Making the Biofuels Process Safer for Microbes
Simple everyday phenomenon was unexplained by physics — until now.
Read more about Why Do Puddles Stop Spreading?
Kin Fai Mak, assistant professor of physics in Eberly College of Science at Penn State, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science to receive funding for his research as part of the DOE's Early Career Research Program.
Read more about Mak to Receive Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Funding
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.
Read more about Layered Graphene Beats the Heat
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
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
