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Luminous Blue Variable Star

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) have developed new, three-dimensional simulations that reveal the inner workings of one of the universe’s most mysterious stars.

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New, Highly Stable Catalyst May Help Turn Water Into Fuel

In the journal Angewandte Chemie, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report on an electrocatalytic material made from mixing metal compounds with substance called perchloric acid.

Chemical Engineering Alumna Receives Federal Early Career Award

Elizabeth J. Biddinger, an Ohio University chemical and biomolecular engineering alumna, has received one of 84 early career awards from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Columbia Receives $10.7 Million for Department of Energy Frontier Research Center

Columbia University and collaborators have been awarded $10.7 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a new Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC). The center, named “Programmable Quantum Materials (Pro-QM),” will focus on exploring the behavior of quantum materials with desired properties when under the influence of extremes of light, pressure, temperature, magnetic proximity, nanomechanical manipulation, electrical field, and other conditions.

Copper Ions Flow Like Liquid through the Frozen Atomic Network of a Crystal

In a new study, scientists from Duke University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) probed one such superionic crystal containing copper, chromium and selenium (CuCrSe2) with neutrons and X-rays to determine how the material’s copper ions achieve their liquid-like properties.

Kansas State University Graduate Student Awarded Department of Energy Fellowship

Olivia Hull, a doctoral student in Christine Aiken's research group at Kansas State University, has been awarded a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship to support her research into physical chemistry.

Hampton University Physics Graduate Student is the first Office of Science Graduate Student Research Awardee

Hampton University physics graduate student, Sahara Jesmin Mohammad Prem Nazeer, is officially the first Hampton University Office of Science Graduate Student Research Awardee.

Graphene Layered with Magnetic Materials Could Drive Ultrathin Spintronics

Tiny swirling textures in the magnetic fields within layered materials could be a key to replacing disk drives and flash memory in computing devices. Physicists at UC Davis and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are exploring how these patterns form in materials layered with graphene, an ultrathin form of carbon.

Six Entrepreneurs Selected to Develop Innovative Technologies at Argonne

Six scientists from across the country have begun a two-year program at Argonne National Laboratory dedicated to build their energy and science technologies into products. They are the second annual cohort for the Chain Reaction Innovations program, which provides an institutional home for the postdoctoral researchers to develop their innovative technologies.

UAF, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Ink Collaborative Agreement

The University of Alaska Fairbanks and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have signed a five-year collaborative agreement to advance research on hydropower generation, marine renewable energy and underwater technology development.

UMD-led Study Shows How Earth Slows the Solar Wind to a Gentle Breeze

NASA satellite data reveals electron-scale energy transformation at the leading edge of Earth’s magnetic field.

Physicists Use Terahertz Flashes to Uncover New State of Matter Hidden by Superconductivity

Using the physics equivalent of the strobe photography that captures every twitch of a cheetah in full sprint, researchers at Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory have used ultrafast spectroscopy to visualize electrons interacting as a hidden state of matter in a superconductive alloy.