2-Stage Gas Sensor Reports on Soil Dynamics
A gene “genie” developed by Rice University scientists grants researchers valuable data about microbes through puffs of gas from the soil.
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A gene “genie” developed by Rice University scientists grants researchers valuable data about microbes through puffs of gas from the soil.
Read more about 2-Stage Gas Sensor Reports on Soil DynamicsWashington State University researchers have found a way to more efficiently generate hydrogen from water — an important key to making clean energy more viable.
Read more about New Water-Splitting Method Could Open Path to Hydrogen EconomyThe Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) has been awarded a $1.1M U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant to elucidate the mechanism of rust pathogenesis in poplar in an effort to engineer durable resistance for this important, second generation biofuel crop.
Read more about IBBR Awarded DOE Grant to Investigate How to Protect an Emerging Biofuel Crop from DiseaseUniversity of Virginia scientists are remotely monitoring two Department of Energy detectors-one in Illinois and one in Minnesota-to observe and study neutrino oscillation.
Read more about University of Virginia Researchers Continue to Learn More About the Universe’s OriginsKaren Chen-Wiegart, an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University with a joint appointment at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is part of a scientific collaboration led by researchers at The Met, the University of Delaware, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) BNL to better understand 'soap formation,' a widespread degradation process in oil paintings.
Read more about Pigments in Oil Paintings Linked to Artwork DegradationWith this eye toward the future, the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Washington announced the creation of the Northwest Institute for Materials Physics, Chemistry and Technology — or NW IMPACT — a joint research endeavor to power discoveries and advancements in materials that transform energy, telecommunications, medicine, information technology and other fields.
Read more about UW and PNNL Team Up to Make the Materials of TomorrowResearchers have discovered that a two-dimensional, metallic material called MXene, which was developed at Drexel, can be used to improve sensors that detect chemicals in the air.
Read more about A High(er)-Definition Nose — Drexel's MXene Material Could Improve Sensors That SniffTiny airborne particles can have a stronger influence on powerful storms than scientists previously predicted, according to a new study co-authored by University of Maryland researchers.
Read more about Tiny Particles Have Outsized Impact on Storm Clouds and PrecipitationScientists at the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory shed light on how a protein complex, Photosystem I (PSI), plays important roles in protecting plants from excessive sunlight exposure and in helping them navigate old age.
Read more about Reviewing Photosynthesis in Dynamic Conditions: PSI as the ProtectorYale researchers are studying the properties of neutrinos by looking at the data from the Daya Bay experiment, while constructing an experiment called PROSPECT to be installed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Read more about Good PROSPECTs for Neutrino Physics: Yale Leads New Experiment for Weird Neutrino BehaviorUtah State University biochemists, who, with collaborators from the University of Washington and Montana State University, report a bacterial, iron-only nitrogenase pathway for methane formation. Further the iron-only variant of nitrogenase can transform carbon dioxide into methane in a single, enzymatic step.
Read more about Nature Has More Than One Way to Make Methane say USU BiochemistsA team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has found novel topological phenomena in a different class of systems — open systems, where energy or material can enter or be emitted, as opposed to closed systems with no such exchange with the outside.
Read more about New Exotic Phenomena Seen in Photonic Crystals