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CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is Once Again Smashing Protons and Taking Data

Several thousand physicists worldwide, including a group from Southern Methodist University, are analyzing new proton collision data taken by the LHC to unravel the structure of the Higgs.

Insect Outbreaks Reduce Wildfire Severity

Surprising new University of Vermont research finds that outbreaks by the mountain pine beetle and western spruce budworm can actually reduce wildfire severity.

UWM Researchers Create a Better Way to Find Out ‘When’

A new mathematical tool, devised and tested by an international team led by two researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, reduces timing uncertainties during changing events, improving accuracy by a factor of up to 300, with numerous applications.

A One-Stop Shop for Producing and Crystallizing Biomolecules

The Macromolecular Structure Knowledge Center can help researchers who lack equipment for testing hundreds of different crystallization conditions or expertise in working with challenging molecules.

Split-Second Imaging Sheds Light on Biology’s Grand Questions

In a groundbreaking experiment with the world’s fastest camera, a team of physicists – led by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – documented the fundamental processes of a chemical reaction unfolding in real time.

Evidence Shows Galactic Center's Gamma Rays Unlikely to Originate From Dark Matter

Bursts of gamma rays from the center of our galaxy are not likely to be signals of dark matter but rather other astrophysical phenomena such as fast-rotating stars called millisecond pulsars, according to two new studies, one from a team based at Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and another based in the Netherlands.

New Discovery at UMass Amherst May Lead to More Efficient Solar and Opto-Electronic Devices

Chemists and polymer scientists collaborating at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they have for the first time identified an unexpected property in an organic semiconductor molecule that could lead to more efficient and cost-effective materials for use in cell phone and laptop displays.

Will Cars of the Future Run on Waste?

Researchers at UCLA have engineered a bacterial system that uses material from renewable sources such as agricultural waste, municipal waste, plant matter, cellulosic matter and even carbon dioxide to create the next generation of advanced biofuels.

Model Perfect

A team of researchers led by the University of Delaware's Dion Vlachos has developed a framework to address the issue of errors in mathematical models by looking at the effects of correlated parameters.

Using Glass to Improve Graphene’s Powerful Conductivity

A team of scientists led by Matthew Eisaman, a physicist at Stony Brook University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, have developed a method using common glass for creating resilient, customized, and high-performance graphene.

IU Physicist Leads Discovery of New Particle: 'Four-Flavored' Tetraquark

Research led by Indiana University physicist Daria Zieminska has resulted in the first detection of a new form of elementary particle: the "four-flavored" tetraquark.

'Road Testing' Plants Reveals Photosynthesis Secrets

Scientists at Michigan State University are dedicating considerable efforts to understanding basic mechanisms of photosynthesis and how the ‘solar panel,’ the photosynthetic membrane and ultimately the leaf, is built.