Duke University researchers and colleagues are studying the microbiome of plants in the field to determine what influences the microbes that live in and on roots and leaves, that in turn, impact the plant’s health and growth.
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A team of scientists at the University of Texas at Austin used computer simulations to find a possible new source of gamma rays generated from tabletop lasers.
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Working with information sent from the Japanese Hitomi satellite, an international team of researchers that include Stanford scientists has obtained the first views of a supermassive black hole stirring hot gas at the heart of a galaxy cluster, like a spoon stirring cream into coffee.
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Northwestern University engineers discover electrostatic imbalance causes particles to swarm, cluster, and form connected chains.
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New work from a team led by Carnegie’s José Dinneny discovers a strategy employed by grasses in drought conditions that could potentially be harnessed to improve crop productivity.
Read more about Crop Roots Enact Austerity Measures During Drought to Bank Water
A Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego-led research team analyzing satellite cloud records has found that the cloudy storm tracks on Earth are moving toward the poles and subtropical dry zones are expanding.
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A University of California, Irvine engineer has invented a method for analyzing nanowires at temperatures approaching 800 degrees Fahrenheit in first-ever experiments, showing the valuable role the materials could play in converting excess heat from machines and electronics into useable electricity.
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A new type of two-dimensional-layered perovskite developed by Northwestern University, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Rice University researchers will open up new horizons for next-generation stable solar-cell devices and new opto-electronic devices such as light-emitting diodes, lasers and sensors.
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Discovery by researchers at Penn State University could enable scientists to engineer crop plants that more efficiently harness the energy of the Sun.
Read more about New Clues Could Help Scientists Harness the Power of Photosynthesis
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a new combination of methods that can provide detailed information about the microstructure of polycrystalline metals.
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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are studying the hybridization of yeasts, ultimately leading to a better understanding of the natural history and genetic diversity of these economically important organisms.
Read more about Lessons of Lager: Yeast Origin Becomes a Complex Tale
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have uncovered a mechanism that a type of pathogenic bacteria found in shellfish use to sense when they are in the human gut, where they release toxins that cause food poisoning.
Read more about Study Finds Sensing Mechanism in Food Poisoning Bug
