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A Potentially Cheap, Efficient and Eco-Friendly System for Purifying Natural Gas

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 3, 2018 — Fundamental researchers at the Colorado School of Mines have proposed a novel two-part system for separating impurities from natural gas in […]

Sweating the Small Stuff

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 1, 2018 — When people sweat, they unknowingly release a wide range of chemicals that can noninvasively inform clinicians on anything from stress hormone levels […]

Molecular Evolution: How the Building Blocks of Life May Form In Space

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 25, 2018 — In a laboratory experiment that mimics astrophysical conditions, with cryogenic temperatures in an ultrahigh vacuum, scientists used an electron gun to […]

Getting Electrons to Move in a Semiconductor

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24, 2018 — The next generation of energy-efficient power electronics, high-frequency communication systems, and solid-state lighting rely on materials known as wide bandgap semiconductors. […]

The ‘Missing Link’ in Conducting Molecules, Butadiene — Solved

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24, 2018 — Linear polyenes are hydrocarbon chains with unusual optical and electrical properties. They have become a paradigm for studying photoisomerization — when […]

Reconstructing What Makes Us Tick

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24, 2018 — Cardiac arrhythmia results when the usual symphony of electric pulses that keep the heart’s muscles in sync becomes chaotic. Although symptoms […]

Understanding Mercury’s Magnetic Tail

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17, 2018 – Theoretical physicists used simulations to explain the unusual readings collected in 2009 by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging […]

Machine Learning Techniques May Reveal Hidden Cause-Effect Relationships in Protein Dynamics Data

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17, 2018 — Machine learning algorithms excel at finding complex patterns within big data, so researchers often use them to make predictions. Researchers are […]

Performing Under Pressure: Modeling Oxidation in High-Stress Materials

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17, 2018 — Each year, the effects of corroding materials sap more than $1 trillion from the global economy. As certain alloys are exposed […]