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Crop Rotation Boosts Soil Microbes, Benefits Plant Growth

In the first study of its kind, new research from the University of New Hampshire shows that crop rotations, in isolation from other management factors, can increase the functions performed by soil microbial communities that benefit plant growth.

Physicists Catch a Magnetic Wave that Offers Promise for More Energy-Efficient Computing

A team of physicists at New York University, Stanford University, and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have taken pictures of a theorized but previously undetected magnetic wave, the discovery of which offers the potential to be an energy-efficient means to transfer data in consumer electronics.

Science Provides New Way to Peer Into Pores

Rice University lab finds technique to characterize nanoscale spaces in porous materials.

Grant to Help Increase Biofuel Yield While Limiting Fertilizer Use

Michigan State University has earned a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to better understand how biofuel crops acquire nitrogen, insights that could help maximize yields while minimizing fertilizer use.

Fertilize the Ocean, Cool the Planet?

MIT researchers find unintended consequences of an idea to stimulate ocean phytoplankton growth in order to geoengineer a cooler atmosphere.

Japanese Paper Art Inspires New 3-D Fabrication Method

Northwestern University, University of Illinois and Tsinghua University research team has created complex 3-D micro- and nanostructures out of silicon and other materials found in advanced technologies using a new assembly method that uses cuts to advantage.

A Distant Planet’s Interior Chemistry May Differ From Our Own

New work from a team including three Carnegie scientists demonstrates that different magnesium compounds could be abundant inside other planets as compared to Earth.

Wichita State Researchers Experiment with Particle Physics

Wichita State professors and students have found that new evidence supports the Big Bang Theory and emerging ideas in medical and defense technology.

New, Ultrathin Optical Devices Shape Light in Exotic Ways

Caltech engineers have created flat devices capable of manipulating light in ways that are very difficult or impossible to achieve with conventional optical components.

New Material Science Research May Advance Tech Tools

Researchers from LSU, Fudan University, the University of Florida and the Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures in Nanjing, China, conducted research on materials that separate into different regions through a process called electronic phase separation, which is poorly understood.

New Catalyst Yields More Accurate PSA Test

A chemist at Michigan Technological University and a team of researchers from Louisiana State University and the University of Texas at Dallas, have developed a new catalyst that could make lab tests like the PSA much more sensitive.

Below the Surface

A new study by a team including University of Delaware researcher Neil Sturchio and his colleagues at the Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Chicago has given scientists an unprecedented look at such detail, showing how minerals and fluids interact in extreme conditions.