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Engineers Turn Plastic Insulator Into Heat Conductor

Engineers at MIT have developed a polymer thermal conductor — a plastic material that, however counterintuitively, works as a heat conductor, dissipating heat rather than insulating it.

Ancient Paper Art, Kirigami, Poised to Improve Smart Clothing

A University at Buffalo-led research team shows how paper-cutting can make ultra strong, stretchable electronics.

WSU, PNNL Strengthen Research Ties to Shape the Future – Together

Embracing the ‘power of partnerships,’ the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Washington State University today announced the formation of the WSU-PNNL Institutes — a collection of three joint institutes that will advance science and technology in nuclear science and technology, advanced grid and bioproducts.

UT Collaboration Examines How Natural Chemicals in Green Tea Work

Green tea has always been known to have beneficial health effects, but how these effects come about has been a mystery. Now, a team collaborating across the University of Tennessee System has discovered molecular mechanisms with which key chemicals in green tea work.

MSU Scientists' Discovery in Yellowstone 'Extremely Relevant' to Origin of Life

Montana State University scientists have found a new lineage of microbes living in Yellowstone National Park’s thermal features that sheds light on the origin of life, the evolution of archaeal life and the importance of iron in early life.

William Higgins Receives Department of Energy Graduate Student Award

Higgins, a fifth-year graduate student in the lab of Eugenia Kharlampieva, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, will study at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, working with John Ankner, Ph.D., lead instrument scientist.

Chemists ‘Crystallize’ New Approach to Materials Science

A team of chemists at the University of California San Diego conducted breakthrough research for materials science—a field for which chemistry frequently provides information about the structure and composition of materials, as well as the processes for making and using them.

In ‘Nature’: Drilling Down into the Secrets of the Weak Force

William & Mary has a large number of authors on a “Nature” paper reporting accurate measurement of the weak force at the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

The Search for Dark Matter

The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) at the University of Washington recently created an ultra-sensitive technology that could potentially detect axions, the building blocks of dark matter. This discovery could pave the way for scientists to uncover how the universe is organized and what dark matter actually is.

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Scientists Pinpoint Energy Flowing Through Vibrations in Superconducting Crystals

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory including a Stony Brook grad student have tracked never-before-seen interactions between electrons and the crystal lattice structure of copper-oxide superconductors.

My Internship as a Computational Engineer

Florida International University student Longfei Wei completed an internship at Argonne National Laboratory, working with ANL researchers to test power measurement data and develop machine learning algorithms able to forecast future renewable energy generation.

Two CU Boulder Graduate Students Receive Department of Energy Awards

The University of Colorado Boulder recipients are Andrew Johnston Hess, who will be hosted at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Garrett Rue, who will be hosted at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).