Rice University scientists have fabricated a durable catalyst for high-performance fuel cells by attaching single ruthenium atoms to graphene.
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Engineers at Caltech have for the first time developed a light detector that combines two disparate technologies—nanophotonics, which manipulates light at the nanoscale, and thermoelectrics, which translates temperature differences directly into electron voltage—to distinguish different wavelengths of light, including both visible and infrared wavelengths, at high resolution.
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By focusing laser light to a brightness 1 billion times greater than the surface of the sun — the brightest light ever produced on Earth — physicists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have observed changes in a vision-enabling interaction between light and matter.
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A team of researchers has found a way to detect trace gases down to concentrations at the parts-per-quadrillion level using a new variation on the photoacoustic effect, a technique that measures the sound generated when light interacts with molecules.
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Jing Shi, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Riverside, and colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Arizona State University report they have created a TI film just 25 atoms thick that adheres to an insulating magnetic film, creating a “heterostructure.”
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For the first time, scientists at Michigan State University have visualized the fine details of bacterial microcompartment shells – the organisms’ submicroscopic nanoreactors, which are comprised completely of protein.
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A global team of more than 150 scientists and engineers, including a team from Michigan State University, will be part of the Muon g-2 experiment, located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
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A new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution brought together 62 scientists, led by Henry Adams at Oklahoma State University, from across the globe to synthesize all known research from drought manipulation studies that killed trees to develop a more accurate land-surface prediction model.
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Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a new way to precisely pattern nanomaterials that could open a new path to the next generation of everyday electronic devices.
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New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss offers fresh evidence supporting the theory that our Solar System’s formation was triggered by a shock wave from an exploding supernova.
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Iowa State University's Edward Yu and his research group recently published two papers describing the efflux pumps and transporters that certain disease-causing bacteria use to keep antibiotics away.
Read more about Researchers Describe Cell Structures, Mechanisms that Enable Bacteria to Resist Antibiotics
Biogeochemist Marco Keiluweit at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues elsewhere for the first time provide evidence that anaerobic microsites play a much larger role in stabilizing carbon in soils than previously thought.
Read more about Soil Researchers Quantify an Important, Underappreciated Factor in Carbon Release to the Atmosphere
