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A piece of web history is made available again for the first time since its debut in the early 1990s.
Read more about Stanford Libraries Unearths the Earliest U.S. Website
Ferroelectric materials – commonly used in transit cards, gas grill igniters, video game memory and more – could become strong candidates for use in next-generation computers.
Read more about Faster Switching Helps Ferroelectrics Become Viable Replacement for Transistors
Breakthrough in research could lead to a better coupling of light and magnetism, which in turn could yield improvements in data storage, sensing, imaging, and optical communication.
Read more about Discovery by UT Engineers Makes Invisibility Tantalizingly Close
MIT team provides theoretical roadmap to making 2-D electronics with novel properties.
Read more about New 2-D Quantum Materials for Nanoelectronics
UC Davis graduate student Zhou Lu, working with professors in the Departments of Chemistry and of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has shown that oxygen can be formed in one step by using a high energy vacuum ultraviolet laser to excite carbon dioxide.
Read more about Making Oxygen Before Life
Researchers at Princeton University discover a material with “colossal magnetoresistance” which could point to new developments in the storage of electronic information.
Read more about Unstoppable Magnetoresistance
Understanding how atoms "glide" and "climb" on the surface of 2D crystals like tungsten disulphide may pave the way for researchers to develop materials with unusual or unique characteristics.
Read more about 2-D Materials' Crystalline Defects Key to New Properties
Mathematicians from Brown University have introduced a new element of uncertainty into an equation used to describe the behavior of fluid flows.
Read more about Adding Natural Uncertainty Improves Mathematical Models
Researchers at Princeton University have discovered a way to compute the lattice energy of a structure with sufficient resolution to distinguish the actual arrangement of the atoms and reveal the structure among several similar and competing forms.
Read more about Longstanding Bottleneck in Crystal Structure Prediction Solved
A team of environmental scientists and engineers from Clemson University, the University of South Carolina and South Carolina State University will use grant to make a direct positive impact on South Carolina in the advancement of monitoring, remediation and disposal of radioactive contaminants.
Read more about Researchers Get $5.25M to Advance Nuclear Technologies in S. Carolina
University of Washington engineers have designed a concept for a fusion reactor that, when scaled up to the size of a large electrical power plant, would rival costs for a new coal-fired plant with similar electrical output.
Read more about UW Fusion Reactor Concept Could Be Cheaper Than Coal
Researchers report that they’ve succeeded in combining a battery and a solar cell into one hybrid device.
Read more about Batteries Included: A Solar Cell that Stores its Own Power
