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Carbon Deep Beneath Earth's Surface Offers Clues to History of Life

Johns Hopkins University led team also developed new theory about how diamonds form.

Researchers Engineer Improvements of Technology Used in Digital Memory

A team led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers has employed a Nobel Prize-winning material and common household chemical to enhance the properties of a component primed for the next generation of high-speed, high-capacity RAM.

Heat-conducting Plastic Developed at U-Michigan

The spaghetti-like internal structure of most plastics makes it hard for them to cast away heat, but a University of Michigan research team has made a plastic blend that does so 10 times better than its conventional counterparts.

Iowa State, Ames Lab Researcher Working to Save Energy With Nanotechnology Insulation

Research team is working to develop next-generation insulation materials for freezers, refrigerated trucks, buildings and other heating and cooling applications.

Most of Earth's Carbon May Be Hidden in the Planet's Inner Core, New Model Suggests

University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues suggest that iron carbide, Fe7C3, provides a good match for the density and sound velocities of Earth's inner core under the relevant conditions.

Chemists Fabricate Novel Rewritable Paper

An attractive alternate to regular paper, UC Riverside-developed technology helps address increasing problems in environment and resource sustainability.

Discovery by UT Engineers Makes Invisibility Tantalizingly Close

Breakthrough in research could lead to a better coupling of light and magnetism, which in turn could yield improvements in data storage, sensing, imaging, and optical communication.

Shaping the Future of Energy Storage With Conductive Clay

Materials scientists from Drexel University’s College of Engineering invented the clay, which is both highly conductive and can easily be molded into a variety of shapes and sizes.

Groundwater Dating

Neil Sturchio, chair of the Department of Geological Sciences at University of Delaware, is co-author of a Nature Geoscience paper detailing a pioneering new technique to date groundwater.

Science Study Links Greenhouse Gases to African Rainfall

Scientists at Oregon State University may have solved a long-standing enigma known as the African Humid Period – an intense increase in cumulative rainfall in parts of Africa that began after a long dry spell following the end of the last ice age and lasting nearly 10,000 years.

Looking at El Nino’s Past to Predict its Future

A new study at Georgia Tech shows how this climate system responds to various pressures, such as changes in carbon dioxide and ice cover, in one of the best models used to project future climate change.

45-year Physics Mystery Shows a Path to Quantum Transistors

Physicists at the University of Michigan have discovered or confirmed several properties of the compound samarium hexaboride that raise hopes for finding the silicon of the quantum era