Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a technique that allows them to change the refractive index for visible light in some semiconductor materials by 60 percent – two orders of magnitude better than previous results.
Read more about Researchers Find New Way to Control Light with Electric Fields
Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) assistant scientist Kim Lemmer and a team of collaborators focus on the microbes, reporting on a novel way to increase lipid production in bacteria. The finding could help make microbial lipids a viable alternative to petroleum-derived fuels and chemicals.
Read more about Modifying Cell Wall Can Increase Bacterial Lipids
A 12-month study mapping bacterial diversity within a hospital — with a focus on the flow of microbes between patients, staff and surfaces — should help hospitals worldwide better understand how to encourage beneficial microbial interactions and decrease potentially harmful contact.
Read more about Yearlong Survey Tracks the Microbiome of a Newly Opened Hospital
A PhD student in chemical engineering and materials science at Michigan State University will spend the summer accessing the supercomputing resources of Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque after being chosen for a select national honor from the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Read more about Christine James Selected for U.S. DOE Graduate Student Research Award
By analyzing such parameters as the force applied by key presses and the time interval between them, a new self-powered non-mechanical intelligent keyboard developed by researchers at Georgia Tech could provide a stronger layer of security for computer users.
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have taken a significant step toward the development of a battery that could outperform the lithium-ion technology used in electric cars such as the Chevy Volt.
Read more about Beyond the Lithium Ion – A Significant Step Toward a Better Performing Battery
Research teams led by Edward Yu of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory have described the structures of two proteins they believe pump antibiotics from bacteria, allowing the bacteria to resist medications.
Read more about Iowa State, Ames Lab Scientists Describe Protein Pumps that Allow Bacteria to Resist Drugs
University of Wisconsin-Madison and Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers have developed a novel X-ray imaging technique to visualize and study the electrochemical reactions in lithium-ion rechargeable batteries containing a new type of material, iron fluoride.
Read more about Better Battery Imaging Paves Way for Renewable Energy Future
Carnegie Mellon’s Chad Schafer is co-leader of a team developing new methods to gain scientific insights from the roughly 30 terabytes of data that the LSST will gather each night.
Read more about Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Taps Carnegie Mellon Statistician To Lead Informatics and Statistics Science
New work from Carnegie’s Russell Hemley and Ivan Naumov hones in on the physics underlying the recently discovered fact that some metals stop being metallic under pressure.
Read more about From Metal to Insulator and Back Again
A team of researchers at Drexel University is searching for a deeper understanding of a new class of materials whose magnetism can essentially be controlled by the flick of a switch.
Read more about Putting a New Spin on Computing Memory
A team of researchers at the University of Georgia and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Science Center in Tennessee have surprising answers about the potential to manipulate the genetics in trees to work to our advantage.
Read more about UGA Researchers Growing Trees Faster and Easier to Turn Into Fuel
