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UWM Researchers Create First 3-D Movie of a Virus in Action

A research collaboration led by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has for the first time created a three-dimensional movie showing a virus preparing to infect a healthy cell.

UMD Engineers Invent the First Bio-Compatible, Ion Current Battery

Engineers at the University of Maryland have invented an entirely new kind of battery. It is bio-compatible because it produces the same kind of ion-based electrical energy used by humans and all living things.

New Ultrathin Semiconductor Materials Exceed Some of Silicon’s ‘Secret’ Powers

Electrical engineers at Stanford have identified two semiconductors – hafnium diselenide and zirconium diselenide – that share or even exceed some of silicon’s desirable traits, starting with the fact that all three materials can “rust.”

Finding Neutrinos – a Q&A with Matthew Green

Matthew Green is an assistant professor of physics at NC State. He was involved in a multi-institutional research project aimed at detecting a process called Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nuclear Scattering (CEvNS).

New Additive Helps Researchers More Selectively Convert CO2 to Multicarbon Fuels

A Caltech team has identified a new additive that helps selectively convert CO2 into fuels containing multiple carbon atoms—a step toward ultimately making renewable liquid fuels that are not derived from coal or oil.

ChemE Student Wins DOE Award

This summer, Christopher Lee Hanselman, a Ph.D. student in chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, will be working at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh to pursue his doctoral thesis research in optimization for process systems engineering.

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World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector Observes Elusive Interactions of Particles

Prof. Juan Collar led a team of UChicago physicists who built a lightweight, portable neutrino detector to observe the elusive interactions of the ghostly particles.

Unusual Quantum Liquid on Crystal Surface Could Inspire Future Electronics

For the first time, an experiment conducted by researchers at Princeton University and the University of Texas-Austin has directly imaged electron orbits in a high-magnetic field, illuminating an unusual collective behavior in electrons and suggesting new ways of manipulating the charged particles.

Penn Researchers Move One Step Closer to Sustainable Hydrogen Production

Splitting water into its hydrogen and oxygen parts may sound like science fiction, but it’s the end goal of chemists and chemical engineers like Christopher Murray of the University of Pennsylvania and Matteo Cargnello of Stanford University.

Toward Practical Quantum Computers

Researchers from MIT and MIT Lincoln Laboratory report an important step toward practical quantum computers, with a paper describing a prototype chip that can trap ions in an electric field and, with built-in optics, direct laser light toward each of them.

Rice University Researchers Say 2-D Boron May be Best for Flexible Electronics

The Rice lab of theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson and experimental collaborators observed examples of naturally undulating, metallic borophene, an atom-thick layer of boron, and suggested that transferring it onto an elastic surface would preserve the material’s stretchability along with its useful electronic properties.

UTA Hosts 150 Leading International Physicists Working to Explain the Origins of the Universe

Some 150 leading international physicists will convene at The University of Texas at Arlington Jan.12-15, 2016, to collaborate on the game-changing particle physics experiment known as the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, or DUNE.