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President Obama Names UCLA Physicist Claudio Pellegrini Recipient of Enrico Fermi Award

President Barack Obama today named UCLA physicist Claudio Pellegrini as a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award, a Presidential Award and one of the government’s oldest and most prestigious awards for scientific achievement.

UH Researchers Devise New Formula to Speed Development of Modern Materials

Researchers from the University of Houston have devised a new formula for calculating the maximum efficiency of thermoelectric materials, the first new formula in more than a half-century, designed to speed up the development of new materials suitable for practical use.

In Search of an Elusive Subatomic Particle

University of California, Riverside scientists are working on the Compact Muon Sollenoid (CMS) experiment in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The team has been examining CMS data to look for evidence of a “Majorana neutrino.”

New Manufacturing Approach Slices Lithium-ion Battery Cost in Half

An advanced manufacturing approach for lithium-ion batteries, developed by researchers at MIT and at a spinoff company called 24M, promises to significantly slash the cost of the most widely used type of rechargeable batteries while also improving their performance and making them easier to recycle.

Aluminum-Atom Coating Could Revive Lithium Anodes' Use

Researchers University of Maryland’s Department of Materials Science and the Institute for Systems Research have found a way to coat corrosive but highly energetic lithium metal anodes with an atoms-thick layer of alumina to make lithium-ion batteries last longer.

Detecting the Undetectable: New Chip Identifies Chemicals in Ultratrace Amounts

George Washington University professor’s technology offers advanced detection in drug and other healthcare screenings.

The Secrets of Secretion

New system for fluid release developed by Harvard scientists could improve anti-fouling, drug delivery and self-healing materials.

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UGA Research Links Inorganic Mercury Exposure to Damaged Cell Processes

University of Georgia research has found that inorganic mercury, which was previously thought to be a less harmful form of the toxic metal, is very damaging to key cell processes.

3D “Nanobridges” Formed Using Electron Beam Writing with Tiny Jets of Liquid Precursor

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a process for creating complex, three-dimensional, nanoscale structures - 5,000 times faster than present techniques.

Scientists Create Atomically Thin Metallic Boron

A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern University and Stony Brook University has, for the first time, created a two-dimensional sheet of boron -- a material known as borophene.

Gamma Rays From Distant Galaxy Tell Story of an Escape

New observations from VERITAS and other telescopes advance understanding of blazars as cosmic accelerators and as beacons for gamma-ray cosmology.

Three Princeton Teams Receive INCITE Supercomputing Grants

Three projects based at Princeton University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have received a total of 162 million processor hours on the two most powerful computers in the nation dedicated to open science thanks to Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) grants from the U.S. Department of Energy.