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New Additive Helps Researchers More Selectively Convert CO2 to Multicarbon Fuels

A Caltech team has identified a new additive that helps selectively convert CO2 into fuels containing multiple carbon atoms—a step toward ultimately making renewable liquid fuels that are not derived from coal or oil.

ChemE Student Wins DOE Award

This summer, Christopher Lee Hanselman, a Ph.D. student in chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, will be working at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh to pursue his doctoral thesis research in optimization for process systems engineering.

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Penn Astronomers Contribute to the Most Accurate Measurement of Dark Matter Structure in the Universe

For the past four years, as part of a project called the Dark Energy Survey, a team of scientists from around the globe has aimed one of the world’s most powerful digital cameras towards the sky with the hopes of answering fundamental questions about the universe.

BYU Researchers Develop Method that Could Produce Stronger, More Pliable Metals

BYU researchers said this paper is the first to attempt to crack the code of the atomic structures that heavily influence grain boundary properties with the computer algorithms of machine learning.

Primordial Black Holes May Have Helped to Forge Heavy Elements

Theoretical astrophysicists at UC San Diego’s Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences and UCLA have reported that tiny black holes could have produced the elements heavier than iron - by coming into contact with and being captured by neutron stars, then devouring the star from the inside out.

Stony Brook Researchers Capture Argon Atoms at Room Temperature with a 2D Structure

A research team from Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory have synthesized a two-dimensional structure and successfully trapped argon atoms inside the nanosized pore structure at room temperature.

Loss of Arctic Sea Ice Impacting Atlantic Ocean Water Circulation System

Scientists at Yale University and the University of Southampton say the ongoing Arctic ice loss can play an active role in altering one of the planet’s largest water circulation systems: the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector Observes Elusive Interactions of Particles

Prof. Juan Collar led a team of UChicago physicists who built a lightweight, portable neutrino detector to observe the elusive interactions of the ghostly particles.

GLBRC Scientists Win DOE funding to Create High-Value Chemicals from Woody Biomass

With up to $1.8 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), scientists affiliated with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) will conduct research with the potential to turn woody biomass into an economical source of renewable chemicals.

IU Discovery Could Reduce Nuclear Waste with Improved Method to Chemically Engineer Molecules

A discovery by Indiana University researchers could advance the long-term storage of nuclear waste, an increasingly burdensome and costly task for the public and private agencies that protect people from these harmful chemicals.

Research Center Established to Explore the Least Understood and Strongest Force Behind Visible Matter

Stony Brook University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have established the Center for Frontiers of Nuclear Science to help scientists better understand the building blocks of visible matter.

Test Strips for Cancer Detection Get Upgraded with Nanoparticle

Detecting cancer could be as easy as a home pregnancy test thanks to new research led by Xiaohu Xia, an assistant professor of chemistry at Michigan Technological University. Platinum-coated gold nanoparticles could make cheap and simple test strip detection a reality.