Neutrons provide the solution to nanoscale examination of living cell membrane and confirm the existence of lipid rafts.
Researchers convert 80 percent of biomass into high-value products.
Switchgrass cultivated during a year of severe drought inhibited microbial fermentation and resulting biofuel production.
Common constituents prevent uranium from precipitating from liquids, letting it travel with groundwater.
Seven-year-study shows plant growth does not sustainably balance carbon losses from solar warming and permafrost thaw.
The force that enables nanosize crystals to grow could be used to design new materials.
Scarce compound is key for cellular metabolism and may help shape microbial communities that affect environmental cycles and bioenergy production.
Microbes leave a large fraction of carbon in anoxic sediments untouched, a key finding for understanding how watersheds influence Earth’s ecosystem.
New strategy significantly increases the production and secretion of biofuel building block lipids in bacteria able to grow at industrial scales.
Antibody’s molecular structure reveals how it recognizes the virus.
Some pine trees may have trouble gaining a foothold above the treeline.
Deeper soil layers are more sensitive to warming than previously thought.
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