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Emergent Behavior Lets Bubbles 'Sense' Environment (video)

Tiny bubbles can reorganize their membranes in response to the surrounding environment, according to work carried out in an international collaboration of engineers at the University of California, Davis, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Li-ion Batteries Contain Toxic Halogens VCU Physicists Discover

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University have discovered that most of the electrolytes used in lithium-ion batteries could be replaced with halogen-free electrolytes that are nontoxic and environmentally friendly.

Dark Matter May Be Massive

Case Western Reserve University theorists suggest the Standard Model may account for the stuff.

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Faster Switching Helps Ferroelectrics Become Viable Replacement for Transistors

Ferroelectric materials – commonly used in transit cards, gas grill igniters, video game memory and more – could become strong candidates for use in next-generation computers.

Oregon Researchers Glimpse Pathway of Sunlight to Electricity

Collaboration with Lund University uses modified UO spectroscopy equipment to study 'maze' of connections in photoactive quantum dots.

Groundwater Dating

Neil Sturchio, chair of the Department of Geological Sciences at University of Delaware, is co-author of a Nature Geoscience paper detailing a pioneering new technique to date groundwater.

Most of Earth's Carbon May Be Hidden in the Planet's Inner Core, New Model Suggests

University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues suggest that iron carbide, Fe7C3, provides a good match for the density and sound velocities of Earth's inner core under the relevant conditions.

Researchers Engineer Improvements of Technology Used in Digital Memory

A team led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers has employed a Nobel Prize-winning material and common household chemical to enhance the properties of a component primed for the next generation of high-speed, high-capacity RAM.

Carnegie Mellon Becomes Affiliate of Joint Center for Energy Storage Research

Carnegie Mellon researchers will participate in workshops where they will collaborate with partners, other affiliates and the JCESR hub to find cheaper and more efficient systems for energy storage.

Syracuse Physicists Closer to Understanding Balance of Matter, Antimatter

Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences have made important discoveries regarding Bs meson particles—something that may explain why the universe contains more matter than antimatter.

String Field Theory Could be the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics

USC scientists uncover a connection that could be a huge boost to string theory.

Science Casts Light on Persimmon Pairing and Plant Hybrids

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, and Kyoto University in Japan have discovered how sex is determined in a species of persimmon, potentially opening up new possibilities in plant breeding