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May 30, 2017
Reusable Sponge for Mitigating Oil Spills
The Exxon Valdez, Deepwater Horizon, and other events highlight the devastating effects of uncontrolled releases of petroleum into oceans and other
May 30, 2017
Well-Aligned and Densely Packed
Inside an individual carbon nanotube, electrons, phonons and excitons can travel in only one dimension. This property enables the tube to have
May 26, 2017
Changing the Nature of Optics in One Step
Scientists demonstrated a self-assembly approach to fabricating nanoscale metamaterials that are built on vertically aligned conducting metallic
May 1, 2017
Casting a Wide Net
The various classes of chelators discovered and developed in the course of this fundamental research serve as tools that act, on the molecular
May 1, 2017
Finding the Correct Path
Identifying the correct mechanism of a reaction can still be one of the toughest tasks facing chemists. For example, when designing a catalyst,
April 28, 2017
Getting the Ice Right in Global Models
Recent studies showed that the NASA Global Institute for Space Studies GCM produced upper tropospheric ice water contents that exceeded an
April 28, 2017
Unraveling the Mysteries of Arctic Clouds
Using observational data, scientists derived three-hour averages of surface infrared cloud radiative effect (CRE; a measure of cloud insulating
April 28, 2017
Groundwater Flow Is Key for Modeling the Global Water Cycle
Using integrated hydrologic simulations that couple vegetation and land energy processes with surface and subsurface hydrology, the researchers
April 27, 2017
Uncrowded Coils
The improvement in coil shapes was achieved by asking a somewhat different mathematical question compared to the question asked previously. In the
April 27, 2017
Fast Electrons and the Seeds of Disruption
Tokamak disruptions are large magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities that can occur, for example, if there is a rare and unforeseen failure in the
April 27, 2017
Plasma Turbulence Generates Flow in Fusion Reactors
New measurements and simulations of plasma rotation in DIII-D National Fusion Facility, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility
April 20, 2017
Deciphering Material Properties at the Single-Atom Level
The ability to correlate the 3D arrangements of atoms and defects with a material’s properties and functionality is vital in designing new
April 20, 2017
Smallest Transistor Ever
The next generation of microelectronics will only be realized by finding ways to continue to reduce the size of a transistor. Since the
April 20, 2017
Creation of Artificial Atoms
Graphene’s remarkable electronic properties have fueled the vision of developing graphene-based devices to enable lighter, faster and smarter
April 18, 2017
Developing Tools to Understand Lithium-Ion Battery Instabilities
This research has developed new techniques for in situ measurements of the growth of solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) layers on silicon
March 3, 2017
New CRISPR-Cas, Gene Editing Systems, Discovered in Vast DNA Sequence Dataset
Microbes heavily influence the planet’s cycles, but only a fraction have been identified. Characterizing the abundant but largely unknown
March 3, 2017
Earth’s Viral Diversity Unveiled
Providing high-quality, publicly accessible sequence data goes hand-in-hand with developing and maintaining the databases and tools that the
March 3, 2017
Microbial Community Interactions Drive Methane Consumption in Lakes
Several decades of research have demonstrated the importance of bacterial methanotrophs in carbon cycling processes of lakes, wetlands, and a
March 1, 2017
Ultrafast Imaging Reveals the Electron’s New Clothes
When an electron, which is negatively charged, travels through the atomic lattice, just like the attraction between opposite ends of a magnet, the
February 27, 2017
The Brown Rot Two-Step
Wood-decomposing fungi are essential players in breaking down plant biomass in forest ecosystems and could provide important clues on how to more
February 23, 2017
Controlling the Stiffness of a Material at the Nanoscale
When a material undergoes a phase change, its atomic structure is re-oriented, and many fundamental material properties can be altered including
February 17, 2017
Hydraulic Fluids Hospitable for Microbes
Hydraulic fracturing uses high-pressure injection of fresh water and chemical additives deep into the earth to generate extensive fractures in the
February 16, 2017
Unlocking Peptide Potential
Most drugs currently approved for humans are either large proteins or small molecules. Between these two size categories are peptides. Peptides are
February 16, 2017
Soil Will Absorb Less Atmospheric Carbon than Expected This Century
Soil is the largest terrestrial carbon reservoir and may influence the sign and magnitude of carbon cycle–climate feedbacks. Many Earth
February 16, 2017
Mighty Microbes Roil Oceans
Oxygen minimum zones are widespread areas in the ocean. In these zones, oxygen is depleted due to the metabolic activity of microbes. Rising
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