Research Summaries

Researchers take cues from nature to form living materials with unprecedented control and versatility.

New methods quiet noise and reduce error in measurements of elusive quantum properties.

Layer-by-layer analysis uncovers microscopic mechanisms that affect thin film magnetism important to electronics.

New approach to studying ions accurately predicts behavior, providing insights for biological systems, environmental processes, materials development.

A new path is identified to keep lithium in its place during battery discharge, benefitting efforts to design better energy storage options.

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.

Plant diversity, soil structure, and seasonality all influence microbial diversity in soil.

Discovering hexokinase as an algal regulator of lipids and high-value antioxidants will enable sustainable sources of biofuels and bioproducts.

Scientists image complex superstructures self-assembled from tetrahedral quantum dots, expanding our understanding of forming small, complex crystals.

Interplanetary particles offer insights into the chemistry of the cosmos.