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DOE Early Career Award Goes to Nuclear Energy Elements Researcher

Chemistry professor Karah Knope, who researches elements essential to nuclear energy, is one of 84 scientists at universities and national laboratories receiving an Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy. The award honors outstanding tenure-track researchers who received their Ph.D.s within the last 10 years and comes with a $150,000 grant each year for five years to cover salary and research expenses.

Bioinspired Nanoscale Drug Delivery Method Developed by WSU, PNNL Researchers

Washington State University researchers have developed a novel way to deliver drugs and therapies into cells at the nanoscale without causing toxic effects that have stymied other such efforts.

New Environmental Sensing and Monitoring System Tested and Evaluated at Virginia Tech

On the edge of Virginia Tech’s campus, on a stretch of farmland that few students ever visit, small boxes are whirling through the season’s change to winter, collecting and transmitting data that will make it easier for scientists to monitor and collect data across landscapes.

Kagome Discoveries

Boston College researcher Kun Jiang and Professor of Physics Ziqiang Wang help an international team of colleagues explain new findngs in the kagome magnet.

WVU Physics Student Develops Machine-learning Model for Energy and Environmental Applications

Gihan Panapitiya, a doctoral student from Sri Lanka, has created a new machine-learning model that has the potential to make searching for energy and environmental materials more efficient.

Better Drug to Save Mothers' Lives During Childbirth May be on the Way

Scientists at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience and Stanford University take first step toward a safer drug for reducing postpartum bleeding.

Reimagining Information Processing

West Virginia University physicists Cheng Cen, Lian Li, Yanjun Ma, Ming Yang and Chenhui Yan are looking beyond the limits of classical computing used in our everyday devices and are working toward making quantum device applications widely accessible.

Ancient Gene Duplication Gave Grasses Multiple Ways to Wait Out Winter

New research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison provides valuable insight into how winter-adapted grasses gain the ability to flower in spring, which could be helpful for improving crops, like winter wheat, that rely on this process.

Guiding the Way to a More Sustainable Energy Future

Lehigh University’s Energy Research Center, which was recently awarded three projects with US and international funding, is positioned to help the energy industry meet the challenge of transforming fossil-fuel dependence.

Researchers Make Important Discovery for 'Smart' Films and Encapsulation

A study from the University of Notre Dame has found that the properties of a material commonly used to create conductive or protective films and encapsulate drug compounds – and the conditions in which this material will disassemble to release that medication – may be different than initially thought.

Researchers Discover a Metamaterial with Inherently Robust Sound Transport and Localization

Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York and at the City College of New York (CCNY) have developed a metamaterial that can transport sound in unusually robust ways along its edges and localize it at its corners.

Pushing Microbes to Deliver Preferred Products

Daniel Noguera, a Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, along with graduate student Matt Scarborough and collaborators in the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, recently published a paper in the journal mSystems in which they analyzed the makeup and metabolic activity of a mixed microbial community within a bioreactor.