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Bottling Up Sound Waves

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a technique for generating acoustic bottles in open air that can bend the paths of sound waves along prescribed convex trajectories.

Enhancing Biofuel Yields from Biomass with Novel New Method

UC Riverside engineers develop versatile platform technology to produce biofuels more efficiently.

U.S. Department of Energy Increases Access to Results of DOE-funded Scientific Research

The Energy Department has launched the Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science – PAGES – a web-based portal that will provide free public access to accepted peer-reviewed manuscripts or published scientific journal articles within 12 months of publication.

Light Pulses Control Graphene’s Electrical Behavior

Finding by MIT researchers could allow ultrafast switching of conduction, and possibly lead to new broadband light sensors.

Chemists Develop MRI Technique for Peeking Inside Battery-like Devices

A team of chemists from New York University and the University of Cambridge has developed a method for examining the inner workings of battery-like devices called supercapacitors, which can be charged up extremely quickly and can deliver high electrical power.

Indiana University Chemists Demonstrate 'bricks-and-mortar' Assembly of New Molecular Structures

This development has potential value for the field of organic electronic devices such as field-effect transistors and photovoltaic cells.

Nanostructured Metal-Oxide Catalyst Efficiently Converts CO₂ to Methanol

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new catalytic system for converting carbon dioxide (CO₂) to methanol – a key commodity used to create a wide range of industrial chemicals and fuels.

Sugar Mimics Guide Stem Cells Toward Neural Fate

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have created synthetic molecules that can stand in for natural sugars, but can be more easily manipulated.

New Type of Energy Storage Device Opens Possible Solutions to Energy Challenges

Scientists at the The University of Texas at Austin and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have developed the first of a new class of pseudocapacitor that may eventually lead to devices that can store electricity more densely and charge/discharge more quickly than current pseudocapacitors.

Physicists Unlock Nature of High-temperature Superconductivity

Physicists at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Cornell University, and Brookhaven Lab have identified the “quantum glue” that underlies a promising type of superconductivity — a crucial step towards the creation of energy superhighways that conduct electricity without current loss.

Social Network Research May Boost Prairie Dog Conservation Efforts

Researchers at North Carolina State University using statistical tools to map social connections in prairie dogs have uncovered relationships that escaped traditional observational techniques, shedding light on prairie dog communities that may help limit the spread of bubonic plague and guide future conservation efforts.

UC Riverside at the Large Hadron Collider

A video of UC Riverside graduate students sharing what it is like to build one of the world's largest and most complicated machines.