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Nitric Oxide Plays Key Role in Forming Potent Greenhouse Gas

Cornell chemists have uncovered a fresh role for nitric oxide that could send biochemical textbooks back for revision.

Rice Professor Developing Plasmon–Powered Devices for Medicine, Security, Solar Cells

Gururaj Naik, a professor at Rice University, is developing technology to upconvert light by using lasers to power devices that combine plasmonic metals and semiconducting quantum wells.

Harnessing Light to Drive Chemical Reactions

a study from the University of Michigan has shown how a light-harvesting metal transfers energy to a catalytic metal, opening the way for better catalyst designs.

Computer Chip Technology Repurposed for Making Reflective Nanostructures

A team of engineers at Caltech has discovered how to use computer-chip manufacturing technologies to create the kind of reflective materials that make safety vests, running shoes, and road signs appear shiny in the dark.

Stanford Scientists Discover How Dense, Extraterrestrial Ice Can Form in Just Billionths of a Second

Stanford researchers have for the first time captured the freezing of water, molecule-by-molecule, into a strange, dense form called ice VII (“ice seven”), found naturally in otherworldly environments, such as when icy planetary bodies collide.

Climate Change to Deplete Some US Water Basins, Reduce Irrigated Crop Yields

A new study by MIT climate scientists, economists, and agriculture experts finds that certain hotspots in the country will experience severe reductions in crop yields by 2050, due to climate change’s impact on irrigation.

Scientists Discover New Magnet with Nearly Massless Charge Carriers

Researchers in the Louisiana Consortium for Neutron Scattering working with colleagues from Louisiana State University, Tulane University, Oak Ridge National Lab, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, and the University of New Orleans are reporting topological behavior in a magnet made of novel quantum materials that results in a substantial reduction in heat production and energy savings.

Researchers Discover New Class of Chemical Reaction

A new study led by Michael P. Burke, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has identified the significance of a new class of chemical reactions involving three molecules that each participate in the breaking and forming of chemical bonds.

Duke Scientists Collaborate to Measure Elusive Neutrino Behavior

The COHERENT Collaboration team announced the observation of a tiny bump created when a neutrino ricocheted off an atomic nucleus, an effect called coherent elastic scattering, detected at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Deciphering Potent DNA Toxin’s Secrets

A team of Vanderbilt University researchers have worked out the molecular details that explain how this bacterial toxin—yatakemycin (YTM)—prevents DNA replication.

Multitasking Monolayers

Scientists at Vanderbilt University have discovered a natural process that makes patterned monolayers suitable for creating a wide variety of novel materials with dual optical, magnetic, catalytic or sensing capabilities.

Astrophysics, Galaxy Clusters and the Key to the Universe

Hamilton University student Anya Nugent is working with researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, using a code developed for an innovative algorithm to analyze a three-point correlation function to analyze galaxy triplets and galaxy clustering.