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Improved Method to Clean-Up Legacy Radioactive Waste
Chemistry provides a route to selective binding and extraction of radioactive cesium.
Chemistry provides a route to selective binding and extraction of radioactive cesium.
Enzymes originating from marine sponges were intentionally altered to create a new enzyme that can make semiconductors in artificial cells.
House-of-Cards structure leads to improved zeolite catalyst.
Understanding how two microbes work together to produce the greenhouse gas methane.
A microbe not known for cellulose degradation has 15 cellulases that may improve biofuel production.
Impacts of anthropogenic warming on tropical land region rainfall.
Insights into the origin of ligninases can help develop processes to convert biomass into bioenergy.
Imaging tools aid research in global climate change, plant genetics, biofuels, agriculture, and carbon sequestration.
New calculations have quantified the boundaries and uncertainties of the ‘chart of the nuclides’—the extended periodic table of all matter.
Visualization of electron pair binding confirms predictions about how high temperature superconductivity works.
New scalable, high power energy storage possible with carbon-electrolyte slurries.
Novel, liquid-less design promises to improve long-term stability and durability of dye-sensitized solar cells while hitting high efficiency marks.