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Engineers Create Room-Temperature Multiferroic Material

Multiferroics – materials that exhibit both magnetic and electric order – are of interest for next-generation computing but difficult to create because the conditions conducive to each of those states are usually mutually exclusive.

UTA Physicists to Upgrade Titan Supercomputer Software for Extreme Scale Applications Such as Biology and Materials Science Simulations

Physicists at The University of Texas at Arlington have been awarded a new $1.06 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to upgrade the software that runs on the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in Tennessee to support extremely data-heavy scientific applications such as advanced biology and materials science simulations.

J.R. Macdonald Lab Receives Nearly $8 Million DOE Grant Renewal

Kansas State University's J.R. Macdonald Laboratory hosts the atomic, molecular and optical physics program in the physics department and is one of the largest such programs in the country.

Penn Researchers Expand Research on Simplifying Recycling of Rare-Earth Metals

University of Pennsylvania researchers have extended their pioneering process to enable efficient recycling of two rare-earth metals, neodymium and dysprosium, which are found in many high-tech devices’ magnets.

Researchers Find New Clues in 100-Year-Old Mystery of Frank-Starling Law of the Heart

Researchers at Illinois Institute of Technology and Loyola University have discovered new clues in the 100-year-old mystery of the Frank-Starling law of the heart: What makes the heart contract more strongly at longer lengths given the same level of calcium activation?

New Capability Supports U.S. Energy and Security Needs

The National Nuclear Security Administration, Argonne Lab, and Washington State University will dedicate a new, first-of-a-kind facility dedicated to dynamic compression science for material sciences research.

5 Nanoscience Research Projects That Could Deliver Big Results

Berkeley Lab researchers are solving big challenges with nanoscale projects: a DIY, reflective coating for energy efficient windows, nanoscale wires serving as tiny lasers, nano sponges capturing carbon from power plants, nanocompartments as custom-made chemical factories, polymers spontaneously assembling into nanotubes, and writing with light – photolithography.

Team Simulates a Magnetar to Seek Dark Matter Particle

MIT physicists are proposing a new experiment to detect a dark matter particle called the axion. If successful, the effort could crack one of the most perplexing unsolved mysteries in particle physics, as well as finally yield a glimpse of dark matter.

Study Clears Way for New Approaches to Plant Disease

A Washington State University biologist has found what he calls “very strong support” for an 86-year-old hypothesis about how nutrients move through plants. His two-decade analysis of the phenomenon has resulted in a suite of techniques that can ultimately be used to fight plant diseases and make crops more efficient.

Chemistry Method Expedites Path to Useful Molecules for Medicine

Teams led by Guosheng Liu of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) and Shannon Stahl of the University of Wisconsin–Madison describe a way to convert carbon-hydrogen bonds into nitriles, common components of bioactive molecules used in medicinal and agricultural applications.

New Device Steps Toward Isolating Single Electrons for Quantum Computing

David Schuster, assistant professor of physics, and his collaborators at UChicago, Argonne National Laboratory and Yale University have integrated trapped electrons with superconducting quantum circuits, an advance in the effort to develop quantum computers.

Electron-Phonon Interactions Affect Heat Dissipation in Computer Chips

MIT researchers have found that interactions between electrons and heat-carrying particles called phonons can play a significant role in preventing heat dissipation in microelectronic devices.