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ASU Professor Wins Grants to Elucidate the Magic of Proteins

For Arizona State University’s Dmitry Matyushov, professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and the Department of Physics, years of studying how electrons make their way through some important protein molecules has been recently rewarded with two major grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE).

Middle Eastern Desert Dust on the Tibetan Plateau Could Affect the Indian Summer Monsoon

New atmospheric modeling study, led by William Lau, a research scientist at the University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), could explain the mechanism behind a century-old hypothesis.

Law of Soot Light Absorption: Current Climate Models Underestimate Warming by Black Carbon Aerosol

Rajan Chakrabarty, assistant professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, and William R. Heinson, a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in Chakrabarty’s lab, have discovered something new about soot, or rather, a new law that describes its ability to absorb light: the law of light absorption.

The Weak Force: Life Couldn't Exist Without It

David Armstrong, the Chancellor Professor of Physics at William & Mary, divides his time between Small Hall at William & Mary and the Department of Energy’s Jefferson Lab where he works on experiments involving the weak force, one of the four fundamental interactions that run the universe.

Research Uncovers the Spontaneous Polarization of Novel Ultrathin Materials

Associate professor Salvador Barraza-Lopez and Taneshwor Kaloni, a former post-doctoral researcher, studied ultrathin materials known as tin telluride (SnTe) with colleagues from the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Matter in China.

Manganese May Finally Solve Hydrogen Fuel Cells' Catalyst Problem

Manganese is known for making stainless steel and aluminum soda cans. Now, researchers say the metal could advance one of the most promising sources of renewable energy: hydrogen fuel cells.

Research Offers Hope for Simpler Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Monitoring cancer can often be an intrusive and exhausting process for patients. But with BYU chemistry professor Ryan Kelly’s new research, there is hope for a simpler way: No more biopsies. No more spinal taps. Instead, patients may be able to take a simple blood test to diagnose, monitor and tailor appropriate therapies for various cancers.

UCI Scientists Discover Technique for Manipulating Magnets at Nanoscale

Physicists from the University of California, Irvine have discovered a new way to control magnets at the nanometer scale by electric current.

Finally, a Robust Fuel Cell that Runs on Methane at Practical Temperatures

Though the cell is in the lab, it has high potential to someday electrically power homes and perhaps cars, say the researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology who led its development. In a new study in the journal Nature Energy the researchers detailed how they reimagined the entire fuel cell with the help of a newly invented fuel catalyst.

Doctoral Candidate Awarded Department of Energy Fellowship

University of Georgia doctoral candidate Jordan Russell was awarded a fellowship by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program.

Toward Unhackable Communication: Single Particles of Light Could Bring the 'Quantum Internet'

Purdue researchers have created a new light source that generates at least 35 million photons per second, increasing the speed of quantum communication.

Smallest Life Forms Have Smallest Working CRISPR System

The smallest known CRISPR gene-editing system—the Cas14 protein—was found by University of California, Berkeley researchers in a database of microbial genomes and metagenomes assembled over the past 15 years at the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute and has potential as a biotech tool to edit genes, improving rapid CRISPR diagnostic systems now under development for infectious diseases, genetic mutations and cancer.