The Purdue team works on the Compact Muon Solenoid, or CMS, experiment at the LHC. The CMS is one of three detectors at the LHC capturing traces of collisions between protons as they are flung together at nearly the speed of light.
Read more about Purdue Professors and Students Part of Record-Breaking Collider Restart
Researchers at Princeton University have found that the common test of bouncing a household battery to learn if it is dead or not is not actually an effective way to check a battery's charge.
Read more about Battery Bounce Test Often Bounces Off Target
A team of grad students from Cornell will be among the many U.S. scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider when it restarts.
Read more about Cornell Physicists Energized About Restart of Large Hadron Collider
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed a new approach to structuring the catalysts used in essential reactions in the chemical and energy fields.
Read more about Cages Offer New Direction in Sustainable Catalyst Design
Research led by a University of New Hampshire professor has identified a new source of methane for gas -- hydrates ice-like substances found in sediment that trap methane within the crystal structure of frozen water -- in the Arctic Ocean.
Read more about UNH Geologist Identifies New Source of Methane for Gas Hydrates in Arctic
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected MIT Professor Yogesh Surendranath for a 2015 Early Career Research Program award. This highly competitive program supports exceptional researchers early in their careers, when many scientists do their most formative work.
Read more about Surendranath Receives Department of Energy Early Career Award
Eranda Nikolla, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemical engineering in Wayne State University’s College of Engineering, was selected out of 620 submissions to receive a five-year, $750,000 award for her proposal, Nanostructured, Targeted Layered Metal Oxides as Active and Selective Heterogeneous Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution.
Read more about Wayne State University Engineering Professor Receives Prestigious DOE Early Career Grant
The University of Tennessee joined world partners in a new era of research as scientists began recording data from the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest and most powerful particle accelerator.
Read more about UT Scientists, World Partners Begin New Research at Large Hadron Collider
New joint study by the University of Maryland and NASA quantifies the connection between Earth's largest temperate desert and its largest tropical rainforest.
Read more about Massive Amounts of Saharan Dust Fertilize the Amazon Rainforest
Drexel University senior Matthew Parsons is completing a co-op at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab as a computational physicist, researching nuclear fusion and creating models of plasma disruptions.
Read more about A Co-op Conducting Trailblazing Research For a Brighter Tomorrow
A new partnership between Mississippi State University and Argonne National Laboratory has made the university home to a major regional joint research initiative.
Read more about MSU, Argonne Sign MOU for Joint Energy Research
Priya Vashishta and his colleagues at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering will be unlocking the tremendous promises of creating novel materials thanks to a grant from the White House Materials Genome Initiative.
Read more about Leading A Culture Shift in Materials Research
