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Down the Rabbit Hole: How Electrons Travel Through Exotic New Material

Researchers at Princeton University have observed a bizarre behavior in a strange new crystal that could hold the key for future electronic technologies.

Riedo Leads Novel Study on Designing Reconfigurable Magnetic Nanopatterns

A team of international scientists led by researchers of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) and the Politecnico of Milan in Italy has demonstrated a novel approach for designing fully reconfigurable magnetic nanopatterns whose properties and functionality can be programmed and reprogrammed on-demand.

Study Offers Clearest Picture Yet of How HIV Defeats a Cellular Defender

Univeristy of Illinois physics professor Klaus Schulten and postdoctoral researcher Juan Perilla used experimental data and computer simulations to determine how a human protein that aids HIV infection binds to the HIV capsid.

Arctic Tundra

Neil Sturchio, professor and chair of the University of Delaware’s Department of Geological Sciences, is exploring how the thawing of permafrost, a subsurface layer of soil that remains mostly frozen throughout the year, affects vegetation and the carbon cycle in the Toolik Lake area of the Alaska’s North Slope.

UT and ORNL Scientists Gain New Insights into Atomic Disordering of Complex Metal Oxides

A study led by the University of Tennesse-Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory could soon pay dividends in the development of materials with energy-related applications.

Building a Better Mousetrap, From the Atoms Up

For most of human history, the discovery of new materials has been a crapshoot. But now, UConn researchers have systematized the search with machine learning that can scan millions of theoretical compounds for qualities that would make better solar cells, fibers, and computer chips.

Magneto-Ionics Could be a New Alternative to Electronics

Physicists at UC Davis have observed what’s going on at some of these interfaces - when different materials are layered together - as oxygen ions react with different metals, causing drastic changes in magnetic and electronic properties.

UT Researchers Help Search for Theoretical Particles

University of Texas at Austin researchers are hunting for an elusive subatomic particle called "neutrinos" after unexpected experimental results left the physics community puzzled.

University of Minnesota Receives Major U.S. Department of Energy Grant to Study Next Generation of Materials

The grant will be used to study materials at the most fundamental level that could improve important technologies including data storage, superconductors, fuel cells, and electrical power plants.

A Window Into Battery Life for Next-Gen Lithium Cells

A team of researchers at the University of Michigan are studing dendrites, whiskers of lithium that grow inside batteries and can cause fires like those in the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 that are the bane of next-generation lithium batteries.

Five Scientists Selected as FRIB Fellows

Five scientists have been selected as the first Facility for Rare Isotope Beams-Chinese Scholarship Council research fellows. The fellowship program is part of a memorandum of understanding agreed to between Michigan State University and China’s Peking University.

MSU Builds High-Tech Test Track to Improve Crop Performance

Researchers at Michigan State University are studying photosynthesis and many other plant mechanisms in the lab using sophisticated sensors, cameras, software and more to explore the effects of real-world conditions.