Environmental scientists led by the Virginia Tech College of Science have discovered that the burning of coal produces incredibly small particles of a highly unusual form of titanium oxide.
Read more about Virginia Tech Researchers Discover Potentially Harmful Airborne Nanoparticles Produced Through Burning of Coal
Rice lab of theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson and colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are combining theory and experimentation to prove it’s possible to give 2-D materials specific defects, especially atomic-scale seams called grain boundaries.
Read more about Landscapes Give Latitude to 2-D Material Designers
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).
Read more about Finding Neutrinos – a Q&A with Matthew Green
Researchers at MIT and colleagues at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Toronto describe a novel design that boosts the power output of chip-mounted terahertz lasers by 80 percent.
Read more about Tiny Terahertz Laser Could be Used for Imaging, Chemical Detection
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.
Read more about New Additive Helps Researchers More Selectively Convert CO2 to Multicarbon Fuels
For the past four years, as part of a project called the Dark Energy Survey, a team of scientists from around the globe has aimed one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras towards the sky with the hopes of answering fundamental questions about the universe.
Read more about Penn Astronomers Contribute to the Most Accurate Measurement of Dark Matter Structure in the Universe
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.
Read more about ChemE Student Wins DOE Award
BYU researchers said this paper is the first to attempt to crack the code of the atomic structures that heavily influence grain boundary properties with the computer algorithms of machine learning.
Read more about BYU Researchers Develop Method that Could Produce Stronger, More Pliable Metals
Theoretical astrophysicists at UC San Diego’s Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences and UCLA have reported that tiny black holes could have produced the elements heavier than iron - by coming into contact with and being captured by neutron stars, then devouring the star from the inside out.
Read more about Primordial Black Holes May Have Helped to Forge Heavy Elements
A research team from Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory have synthesized a two-dimensional structure and successfully trapped argon atoms inside the nanosized pore structure at room temperature.
Read more about Stony Brook Researchers Capture Argon Atoms at Room Temperature with a 2D Structure
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.
Read more about World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector Observes Elusive Interactions of Particles
Scientists at Yale University and the University of Southampton say the ongoing Arctic ice loss can play an active role in altering one of the planet’s largest water circulation systems: the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).
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