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UCLA Professors Justin Caram & Anastassia Alexandrova are co-PIs on DOE QIS Research Grant

Team from UCLA, USC, Caltech and Harvard, led by UCLA physicist Wesley Campbell, awarded 2.7 million 3-year DOE Quantum Information Science Research Award.

Scientists Present New Clues to Cut Through the Mystery of Titan's Atmospheric Haze

A research collaboration, involving scientists in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and led by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Professor Ralf Kaiser, has zeroed in on a low-temperature chemical mechanism that may have driven the formation of multiple-ringed molecules—the precursors to more complex chemistry now found in the moon’s brown-orange haze layer.

Study Opens Route to Flexible Electronics Made from Exotic Materials

MIT researchers have devised a way to grow a single crystalline compound semiconductor on its substrate through two-dimensional materials.

Grad Students Earn Prestigious DOE Research Awards, Funding

Two Buckeye engineers are among only 47 graduate students nationwide chosen to receive highly competitive Department of Energy (DOE) research awards. Materials science and engineering (MSE) PhD students Cory Myers and Chris Kovacs each earned DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research award.

NOvA Experiment Reports Strong Evidence of Antineutrino Oscillation

Tricia Vahle, professor of physics at William & Mary and longtime NOvA participant, became a NOvA co-spokesperson on March 21. William & Mary has a sizeable presence on NOvA and even maintains a remote control facility in Small Hall to monitor the experiment based in Batavia, Illinois.

New Process Turns Wood Scraps Into Tape

Engineers at the University of Delaware have developed a novel process to make tape out of a major component of trees and plants called lignin.

Physicists Devise Method to Reveal How Light Affects Materials

Physicists at Emory University developed a way to determine the electronic properties of thin gold films after they interact with light.

Scientists See Inner Workings of Enzyme Telomerase, Which Plays Key Roles in Aging, Cancer

Cancer, aging-related diseases and other illnesses are closely tied to an important enzyme called “telomerase.” UCLA researchers report in the journal Cell the deepest scientific understanding yet of this once-mysterious enzyme, whose catalytic core — where most of its activity occurs — can now be seen in near atomic resolution.

UW Physicists, CERN Announce Discovery of Higgs Boson Interactions

The international particle accelerator collaboration CERN announced Monday, June 4, that two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider discovered a link between the two heaviest known particles: the top quark and the Higgs boson. University of Wisconsin–Madison physicists are members of the CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN, which jointly discovered the Higgs boson in 2012.

Putting Excess Carbon Dioxide to Good Use

Professor Joel Rosenthal and his team in UD’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have discovered that bismuth has an unusual property that can be harnessed to help the environment—as a chemical “spark” or catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, into liquid fuels and industrial chemicals.

USU Biochemist and Colleagues Imagine World Beyond Fossil Fuel

Utah State University biochemist Lance Seefeldt and other university and national laboratory scientists report on the field of nitrogen activation chemistry and future directions for understanding critical, nitrogen transformation reactions.

PROSPECTing for Antineutrinos

The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT), located at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has begun taking data to study electron antineutrinos that are emitted from nuclear decays in the reactor to search for so-called sterile neutrinos and to learn about the underlying nuclear reactions that power fission reactors.