March 9, 2023

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Troubling Discovery

University of New Mexico researchers find nanoparticles of gadolinium, a rare earth metal used in MRI contrast agents, can infiltrate kidney tissue.

March 9, 2023

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Graduate Student Spotlight: Sarvada Chipkar

Chipkar is a PhD candidate in Ong Research Laboratory at Michigan Technological University.

March 8, 2023

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Discovering the Magic in Superconductivity’s ‘Magic Angle’

Researchers find new evidence of how graphene, when twisted to a precise angle, can become a superconductor, moving electricity with no loss of energy

March 8, 2023

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Researchers Map Wide Impacts of Fire-Induced Permafrost Thaw in Alaska

The thaw triggers ground sinking and thermokarst development, leading to surface water inundation, vegetation shifts & changes in soil carbon balance.

March 8, 2023

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Smooth Sailing for Electrons in Graphene

Physicists at the UW–Madison directly measured, for the first time at nanometer resolution, the fluid-like flow of electrons in graphene.

March 7, 2023

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Proposed Quantum Device May Succinctly Realize Emergent Particles Such as the Fibonacci Anyon

The device is simple enough to be theoretically modeled and tested experimentally, yet also complex enough to display non-trivial emergent particles.

March 7, 2023

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Berhe Chosen for National Academy Membership in Recognition of Her Soil Research

Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for her research into climate change and soil sequestration.

March 7, 2023

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Year of Intense Wildfires in Nepal May Help Scientists Predict Future Blazes

A simple statistical model may make it easier for leaders to see these blazes coming and intervene in time to spare lives, homes, crops, and forests.

March 6, 2023

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Scripps Pier, UC San Diego Mount Soledad Facility to Host Coastal Marine Cloud Study

The year-long field campaign launched Feb. 15 to study the marine clouds that shade and cool the earth.

March 6, 2023

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Stealing Electrons and Reversing Time

A novel form of superconductivity supports evidence for a chiral superconductor that could bring quantum computing closer to the mainstream.