A team of environmental scientists and engineers from Clemson University, the University of South Carolina and South Carolina State University will use grant to make a direct positive impact on South Carolina in the advancement of monitoring, remediation and disposal of radioactive contaminants.
Read more about Researchers Get $5.25M to Advance Nuclear Technologies in S. Carolina
University of Washington engineers have designed a concept for a fusion reactor that, when scaled up to the size of a large electrical power plant, would rival costs for a new coal-fired plant with similar electrical output.
Read more about UW Fusion Reactor Concept Could Be Cheaper Than Coal
University of Chicago physicists have shown that a group of scientists were incorrect when they concluded that a mysterious effect found in superfluids indicated the presence of solitons—exotic, solitary waves.
Read more about Deceptive-looking Vortex Line in Superfluid Led to Twice-mistaken Identity
Rice University physicists find
2-D form pays no heed to defects.
Researchers at Princeton University discover a material with “colossal magnetoresistance” which could point to new developments in the storage of electronic information.
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Six researchers from UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory sketched out their teams’ bold plans to jump-start new brain research.
Read more about Three Bay Area Institutions Join Forces to Seed Transformative Brain Research
A University of Utah-led study using X-rays and neutron beams has revealed the inner workings of a master switch that regulates basic cellular functions, but that also, when mutated, contributes to cancer, cardiovascular disease and other deadly disorders.
Read more about Researchers Look Inside to Reveal Workings of Powerful Biochemical Switch
Scientists from the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis have shown a new way to reverse or eliminate energy loss by, ironically, adding loss to a laser system to actually reap energy gains.
Read more about Winning By Losing: School of Engineering Scientists Find a Way to Improve Laser Performance
In a design that mimics a hard-to-duplicate texture of starfish shells, University of Michigan engineers have made rounded crystals that have no facets.
Read more about Facetless Crystals That Mimic Starfish Shells Could Advance 3D-printing Pills
New method at MIT produces particles that can glow with color-coded light and be manipulated with magnets.
Read more about Nanoparticles Get a Magnetic Handle
Stanford's Yi Cui and colleagues have created a lithium-ion battery that alerts users of potential overheating and fire.
Read more about Stanford Scientists Create a 'Smart' Lithium-ion Battery That Warns of Potential Fire Hazards
Washington State University researchers have developed a new catalyst that could lead to making biofuels cheaply and more efficiently.
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