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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.

New Algorithm Can More Quickly Predict LED Materials

Researchers from the University of Houston have devised a new machine learning algorithm that is efficient enough to run on a personal computer and predict the properties of more than 100,000 compounds in search of those most likely to be efficient phosphors for LED lighting.

Tethered Antibodies Present a Potential New Approach to Prevent Influenza Virus Infections All Season Long

As co-leaders of an international collaboration, scientists at Scripps Research have discovered that tethering four antibodies together may be an effective strategy for neutralizing all types of influenza virus known to infect humans.

Yale Receives $3.6 Million to Build Quantum Computer Memory

Earlier this month, a group of Yale researchers received a $3.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to build the memory components of quantum computers. The research team, led by professor of electrical engineering Hong Tang, works out of Yale’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Yale Quantum Institute.

Next-gen Camera for South Pole Telescope Takes Data on Early Universe

The University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory—have worked together to build a new, ultra-sensitive camera for the South Pole telescope, containing 16,000 specially manufactured detectors.

Cornell Receives Nearly $3.5M in Federal Push for Quantum Information Research

Four Cornell researchers have received grants from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of a $218 million federal push to advance quantum information science.