March 9, 2023
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
Graduate Student Spotlight: Sarvada Chipkar
Chipkar is a PhD candidate in Ong Research Laboratory at Michigan Technological University.
March 8, 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.