Sunlight makes the new “aqueous solar flow” battery 20 percent more efficient than today’s lithium-iodine batteries.
Read more about New Design Brings World’s First Solar Battery to Performance Milestone
A team of researchers from Arizona State University and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab has discovered that thousands of bacteria living in soil are connected by a complex metabolic relationship.
Read more about ASU Research Team Digs Up the Dirt on Microscopic Biodiversity
A team of scientists led by Carnegie’s Wolf Frommer has now discovered that a sugar-transport protein in maize and rice called SWEET4 is both necessary for successful seed filling and shows genome changes that indicate domestication by humans.
Read more about Breeding Higher Yielding Crops by Increasing Sugar Import Into Seeds
In The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Jose L. Mendoza-Cortes details how this new material efficiently captures sunlight and then, how the energy can be used to break down water into oxygen (O2) and hydrogen (H2).
Read more about Florida State Researcher Develops Material to Create Sustainable Energy Source
With funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers at Washington State University and seven other institutions are investigating the development of sorghum crops that can grow in marginal soils with scant water and nitrogen yet produce large quantities of quality plant materials for brewing biofuels.
Read more about Seeking New Sorghum, the ‘Camel of Crops,’ for Biofuels
Lack of adequate sleep can do more than just make you tired. It could short-circuit your system and interfere with a fundamental cellular process that drives physical growth, physiological adaptation, and even brain activity, according to a new University of Tennessee study.
Read more about Lack of ZZZZs May Zap Cell Growth, Brain Activity
A quantum chemistry researcher at UC Merced and her colleagues at Stanford University and Washington State University (WSU) are receiving $1.3 million from the Department of Energy over the next three years to model charge and energy transfer for molecules in solutions.
Read more about New Grants Aid Chemist’s Research, Support Student Learning
Findings from researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science provide new evidence that climate change in the tropical Pacific will result in changes in rainfall patterns in the region and amplify warming near the equator in the future
Read more about Study of Cloud Cover in Tropical Pacific Reveals Future Climate Changes
Using a chemical model, Johns Hopkins scientists found that diamonds could be born deep in the Earth during a natural chemical reaction that is simpler than the two main processes that up to now have been understood to produce them.
Read more about Diamonds May Not Be So Rare As Once Thought
New research by a team of international scientists led by Michigan State University has engineered the receptor for jasmonate, a plant hormone that plays a central role in plant defense, to fend off stealthy attacks from highly evolved pathogens.
Read more about Protecting Plants From Stealthy Diseases
A Purdue University-led team of researchers observed electrons transition from a topologically ordered phase to a broken symmetry phase.
Read more about Purdue Researchers Observe Phase Transition Thought Impossible
The grant allows Chapman researchers to participate in the SPRUCE project by investigating the controls of the production and release of the greenhouse gas methane in this ecosystem.
Read more about Chapman University Named as Department of Energy $1.5 Million Grant Recipient Focusing on Climate Change
