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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have engineered a potentially game-changing solar cell that cheaply and efficiently converts atmospheric carbon dioxide directly into usable hydrocarbon fuel, using only sunlight for energy.
Read more about Breakthrough Solar Cell Captures CO2 and Sunlight, Produces Burnable Fuel
A team led by the Georgia Institute of Technology has discovered members of a highly prolific bacteria group known as SAR11 living in the world’s largest oxygen minimum zone. The team has produced unambiguous evidence that the bacteria play a major role in denitrification.
Read more about Newly Discovered Bacteria Linked With Ocean Nitrogen Loss
University of Tennessee and national lab research has led to a new understanding of how and where electrochemical reactions occur, by moving from traditional electrolysis technology to what is known as proton exchange membrane electrolyzer cells or PEMECs.
Read more about UT Research Reveals Potential for 50-fold Increase in Catalyst Mass Activity
With newly collected antineutrino data from the T2K experiment, LSU physicists have shown the continuation of trends observed in 2015, which is a preference for maximal disappearance of muon neutrinos, as well as a discrepancy between the electron neutrino and electron antineutrino appearance rates.
Read more about LSU Physicists Collaborate on T2K CP Violation Results to Explain Workings of Universe
Newly published research by Indiana University scientists finds that low relative humidity in the atmosphere is a significant, growing and often under-appreciated cause of plant stress in hot, dry weather conditions.
Read more about IU Study: During Drought, Dry Air Can Stress Plants More Than Dry Soil
Scientists at Oregon State University have made the first-ever detailed, atomic-level images of a peroxiredoxin, which has revealed a peculiar characteristic of this protein and might form the foundation for a new approach to antibiotics.
Read more about Findings About Protein Could Open Door to New Class of Antibiotics
Researchers at MIT have developed a practical and physically-based way of treating the surface of materials called perovskite oxides, to make them more durable and improve their performance.
Read more about Researchers Find a Way to Extend Life and Improve Performance of Fuel Cell Electrodes
Researchers at MIT and Sandia National Laboratories describe a new way to build terahertz lasers that could significantly reduce their power consumption and size, while also enabling them to emit tighter beams, a crucial requirement for most practical applications.
Read more about New Approach to Microlasers
Polymorphs, or materials with the same composition but different structures, are common in bulk materials, and now researchers at Columbia University confirm they exist in nanomaterials, too.
Read more about Discovery of Gold Nanocluster “Double” Hints at Other Shape Changing Particles
Chemists from the University of Pennsylvania are enabling the next generation of research into ferroelectric materials by providing a new understanding about what it takes for polarizations within these materials to switch.
Read more about Penn Chemists Establish Fundamentals of Ferroelectric Materials
Moving a nanosatellite around in space takes only a tiny amount of thrust. Engineers from Michigan Technological University and the University of Maryland teamed up, put a nanoscale rocket under a microscope, and watched what happened.
Read more about To Infinity and Beyond with Nanosatellites
Researchers at Georgia Tech have found potato bacteria could be used to rescue crops and degrade pollutants.
Read more about Unique Bacterial Chemist in the War on Potatoes
