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Crop simulations detail how switchgrass, a biofuel crop and grown on marginal land, may provide economic returns in otherwise unproductive spaces.

A new way to make carbon fiber could turn refinery byproducts into high-value, ultralight structural materials for cars, aircraft, and spacecraft.

University of Delaware researchers report a new way to boost catalyst activity.

The inherent difficulty of communicating about science may be even greater for basic science

The discovery could help researchers engineer exotic electrical states such as unconventional superconductivity.

Scientists at UW-Madison have turned ultrafast X-ray pulses into something more akin to an optical laser, with cleaner, directional pulses.

The energy storage mechanisms would be regarded as a continuous transition between a purely electrostatic phenomenon or a purely Faradic phenomenon.

Chemists at Northwestern University use elementary particle to catalyze molecular recognition.

The new research could prevent space storms from wreaking havoc on the Earth’s satellite and power grid systems.

The research team created a genome-scale metabolic model for the corn root to study its nitrogen-use efficiency under nitrogen stress conditions.