The funding will be used to develop new technologies to engineer plants and microbes into bioenergy feedstocks and improve carbon storage.
Researchers studied pure iron-germanium crystals and discovered standing waves of fluid electrons appeared when the crystals were cooled.
The U.S. Department of Energy is funding a project at UC Davis to study the function of genes that regulate growth and wood formation in poplar trees.
Scholars to Learn How Climate Change Will Affect Future Flooding Patterns and Gulf Coast Communities
This knowledge is critical to community leaders and planners, to make strategic decisions to deal with these changes over the next several decades.
Yunsoo Choi’s and his students' research could be used by climate scientists to better understand the role of clouds on the global temperature.
The results of this new research will inform communities to build resilience to future effects of climate change.
NSF & DOE grants will help physicists Mitch Soderberg & Denver Whittington to continue their research at the cutting edge of neutrino discovery.
Dartmouth will lead the DOE-funded effort to discover new photovoltaic materials and will also participate in two Energy Frontier Research Centers.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Jennifer Hurley has received a Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science two-year grant.
To limit the high costs of new capacity for generating and storing electricity, drivers should move to daytime charging at work or public stations.