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Researchers Investigate Mechanics of Lithium Sulfides

For the first time, a team at MIT has probed the mechanical properties of a sulfide-based solid electrolyte material, to determine its mechanical performance when incorporated into batteries.

Plant Regulatory Proteins “Tagged” with Sugar

New work from Carnegie’s Shouling Xu and Zhiyong Wang reveals that the process of synthesizing many important master proteins in plants involves extensive modification, or “tagging” by sugars after the protein is assembled.

New Technique Could Lead to Safer, More Efficient Uranium Extraction, Aid Environmental Cleanup

The separation of uranium, a key part of the nuclear fuel cycle, could potentially be done more safely and efficiently through a new technique developed by chemistry researchers at Oregon State University.

Absorbing Electromagnetic Energy While Avoiding the Heat

Electrical engineers at Duke University have created the world's first electromagnetic metamaterial made without any metal.

UCLA Physicists Map the Atomic Structure of an Alloy

Researchers measured the coordinates of more than 23,000 atoms in a technologically important material.

Pattern Discovery over Pattern Recognition: A New Way for Computers to See

Jim Crutchfield, who leads the UC Davis Complexity Sciences Center, along with physics graduate student Adam Rupe and postdoc Ryan James, is designing new machine learning systems to allow supercomputers to spot large-scale atmospheric structures, such as hurricanes and atmospheric rivers, in climate data.

Simulation by Stanford Researchers Shows How Transporter Proteins do their Work in Cells

Stanford researchers have simulated how a transporter protein moves a sugar molecule through a cell membrane, a phenomenon with relevance to drug delivery.

National Lab Day Spotlights Federal, University Research Collaboration

U.S. Congressmen Steve Womack and Bruce Westerman and directors from seven Department of Energy national labs will participate in National Lab Day, Tuesday, April 18, hosted by the University of Arkansas.

Dream of Energy-Collecting Windows is One Step Closer to Reality

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and University of Milano-Bicocca are bringing the dream of windows that can efficiently collect solar energy one step closer to reality thanks to high tech silicon nanoparticles.

Making Molecular Movies with X-rays

In order to better understand the chemical reactions in real time that allow your skin to make vitamin D3, University of California, Berkeley scientists are developing ultrafast spectroscopic devices that not only fit on a table top, but also produce the hard-to-generate UVB photons that trigger the reaction.

Stabilizing Energy Storage

University of Utah and University of Michigan chemists, participating in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, predict a better future for a type of battery for grid storage called redox flow batteries.

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Carnegie Mellon Physicists Search for Supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider

Carnegie Mellon physicists have been instrumental in the development and operation of one of the giant detectors, called the Compact Muon Solenoid, in the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider.