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According to University of Illinois physicist Douglas H. Beck, "Neutrons play some unusual roles in our world. Free neutrons decay in about 900 s but, bound in nuclei, they are stable and make up somewhat more than half the mass of the visible universe."
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There’s a literal disturbance in the force that alters what physicists have long thought of as a characteristic of superconductivity, according to Rice University scientists.
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Some chemicals used to speed up the breakdown of plants for production of biofuels like ethanol are poison to the yeasts that turn the plant sugars into fuel. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and several Department of Energy laboratories have identified two changes to a single gene that can make the yeast tolerate the pretreatment chemicals.
Read more about Researchers Discover How to Protect Yeast from Damage in Biofuel Production
Under warming conditions, Arctic wolf spiders’ tastes in prey might be changing, according to new research by biologist Amanda Koltz in Arts & Sciences — initiating a new cascade of food web interactions that could potentially alleviate some impacts of global warming.
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Energy is high as members of the Argonne Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center (ANSER) celebrate nine years of research and development this month. The collaboration between leaders from chemistry, materials science, and related disciplines has set the stage for a bright future built on achievement in education, collaboration, and discovery.
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The U.S. Department of Energy awarded Case Western Reserve University $10.75 million over four years to establish a research center to explore “Breakthrough Electrolytes for Energy Storage” — with the intent of identifying new battery chemistries with the potential to provide large, long-lasting energy storage solutions for buildings or the power grid.
Read more about U.S. Department of Energy Awards $10.75 Million to Establish Energy Frontier Research Center at Case Western Reserve University
A group led by applied and engineering physics professor David Muller has achieved a record for electron microscopy resolution, using a device developed at Cornell by professor Sol Gruner.
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Working to solve the dark matter mystery is the goal of high-energy physicist Rachel Yohay. Yohay, an assistant professor in Florida State University’s Department of Physics, will now have some help in that endeavor from the U.S. Department of Energy, whose Office of Science just awarded her one of 84 Early Career Research Program awards given out this year. The five-year award, valued at $750,000, will cover her summer salary and research expenses.
Read more about Physicist Rachel Yohay Receives Department of Energy Early-career Award Worth $750,000
A team of researchers at the University of Chicago used broadband 2D IR spectroscopy to reveal proton behavior when acids like HCl dissociate in water. Although general chemistry textbooks typically teach that the proton associates with water as a hydronium ion H3O+, they discovered that the proton is strongly bound between two water molecules and that the structures are predominantly asymmetrical.
Read more about New Study Reveals Proton Hydration Structures are Asymmetric
Andrej Singer, assistant professor of materials science and engineering and David Croll Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow, will lead a three-year project funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science that will attempt to create new quantum states of matter.
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UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineering assistant professor Bolin Liao receives an early career award from the Department of Energy to further investigate the phase coherence of tiny energy carriers such as electrons, phonons and photons, as well as their collective excitations.
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Bart Geerts, a professor and head of the University of Wyoming’s Department of Atmospheric Science, recently was awarded a $605,405 DOE grant to study mixed-phase convective clouds in the polar marine boundary layer in the Arctic.
Read more about UW Professor Receives DOE Grant to Study Arctic’s Mixed-Phase Convective Clouds
