University Research

ISU Faculty Contribute to Large Hadron Collider, ATLAS

Jim Cochran, a professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University, not only has the responsibilities of a professor but also helps oversee the Large Hadron Collider and the U.S. ATLAS experiment, two of the largest science experiments of all time in terms of scale.

UCI-Led Study Offers Model to Predict How Microbiomes May Respond to Change

Scientists studying microbiomes have created a framework for predicting how the composition of these complex microbial communities may respond to changing conditions.

Researchers Design Computational Tool to Prospect Novel Bioconversion Pathways

Researchers from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Penn State have developed a two-step workflow to optimize metabolic networks for the production of chemical products and biofuels.

UMD Discovery Could Enable Portable Particle Accelerators

A new discovery by physicists at the University of Maryland could hold the key to the construction of inexpensive, broadly useful, and portable particle accelerators in the very near future.

Antimatter Not So Different After All

Kefeng Xin, a graduate student at Rice, is one of a handful of primary authors who revealed evidence this week that the attractive force between antiprotons is similar to that between protons — and measured it.

Pineapple Genome Offers Insight into Photosynthesis in Drought-Tolerant Plants

By sequencing its genome, scientists at the University of Illinois are homing in on the genes and genetic pathways that allow the juicy pineapple plant to thrive in water-limited environments.

UW Team Refrigerates Liquids with a Laser for the First Time

University of Washington researchers are the first to solve a decades-old puzzle — figuring out how to make a laser refrigerate water and other liquids under real-world conditions.

“Shrinking Bull’s-Eye” Algorithm Speeds Up Complex Modeling From Days to Hours

MIT researchers have developed a new algorithm that vastly reduces the computation of virtually any computational model.

Plant Metabolic Protein Tailored for Nighttime Growth

A group of researchers at the Carnegie Institute for Science have found a protein that is necessary for photosynthetic organisms to perform their nightly work and, surprisingly, the role of this protein was linked to the construction of the plant’s cellular membranes.