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Analyses of natural communities forming soil crusts agree with laboratory studies of isolated microbe-metabolite relationships.

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Evidence suggests that biorefineries can accept various feedstocks without negatively impacting the amount of ethanol produced per acre.

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New, easily prepared starting material opens access to learning more about a difficult-to-control element in nuclear waste.

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New design coats molecular components and dramatically improves stability under tough, oxidizing conditions.

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A new chemical process converts a component of wasted wood pulp and other biomass into high-value pressure-sensitive adhesives.

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Scientists revise understanding of the limits of bonding for very electron-rich heavy elements.

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Measuring the physical properties of water at previously unexplored temperatures offers insights into one of the world’s essential liquids.

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A large-scale soil project uncovered genetic information from bacteria with the capacity to make specialized molecules that could lead to new pharmaceuticals.

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Mark Palmer, the director of the Department of Energy’s Accelerator Test Facility (ATF), adapts to challenging situations in the same way that the ATF can adapt to users’ needs. Researchers at the ATF work to make particle accelerators smaller, more powerful, and more cost-efficient.

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Experimental warming treatments show how peatland forests may respond to future environmental change.

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A trio of scientists was recognized for their early career successes in uncovering how microbes produce fuel, insights that could change our energy portfolio

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Signaling mechanism details discovered, potentially leading to strategies to engineer plants that make more bio-oil.

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Researchers demonstrated cryogen-free operation of a superconducting radio-frequency cavity that might ease barriers to its use in societal applications.

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Two researchers with personal experience of hurricanes set out to investigate the role of an underestimated factor in storm’s strength – salinity. They found that salinity plays a larger role than anyone thought, including them.

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New studies identify key molecular characteristics to potentially separate rare earth metals cleanly and efficiently with light.

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Precise positioning of oxygens could help engineer faster, more efficient energy-relevant chemical transformations.

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Magnetic reconnection causes space storms that can damage satellites and disrupt the grid. While it’s a common process in the universe, plasma physics researchers don’t fully understand why it occurs so abruptly and quickly. New research is supporting a theory that may hold the key.

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Scientists unlock mystery that could help reduce emissions of fine particles from combustion engines and other sources.

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $218 million in funding for 85 research awards in the important emerging field of Quantum Information Science (QIS).

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MSU scientists have a new proof of concept for a biofuel production platform that uses two species of marine algae and soil fungi. It lowers cultivation and harvesting costs and increases productivity, factors that currently hold back biofuels from being widely adopted.

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Scientists improve our understanding of the relationship between fundamental forces by re-creating the earliest moments of the universe.

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Water molecules line up tiny particles to attach and form minerals; understanding how this happens impacts energy extraction and storage along with waste disposal.

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First direct measurement show how heavy particles containing a charm quark get caught up in the flow of early universe particle soup.

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New detector enables electron microscope imaging at record-breaking resolution.

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New method can make films of atomically thin carbon that are over a foot long.

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U.S. and Korean scientists show how to find and use beneficial 3-D field perturbations to stabilize dangerous edge-localized modes in plasma.

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A new approach to atom probe tomography promises more precise and accurate measurements vital to semiconductors used in computers, lasers, detectors, and more.

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Scientists can now measure 3-D structures of tiny particles with properties that hold promise for advanced sensors and diagnostics.

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Particle flow patterns suggest even small-scale collisions create drops of early universe quark-gluon plasma.

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Scientists uncover a way to control terahertz radiation using tiny engineered particles in a magnetic field, potentially opening the doors for better medical and environmental sensors.

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Efficient generation of photon pairs from modified carbon nanotubes shows path to new types of light sources.

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Laboratory automation applied to complex radiochemical isolation of astatine-211 from cyclotron-bombarded targets.

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Comparing new prediction to measurements of muons’ precession could potentially help scientists discover new subatomic particles.

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One of the world’s most powerful x-ray machines offers scientists studying insects a unique resource to see inside of them. Using the Advanced Photon Source, researchers can watch and record how insects’ internal mechanisms work in real-time.

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CMS observes Higgs boson decays into bottom quarks, furthering our knowledge of how the particles that make up matter behave.

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New direct evidence for Higgs interactions with top and bottom quarks confirms its role in generating mass for constituents of matter.

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Collaborative, open-source software and data platform accelerates systems biology research.

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The element’s unusual electron structure and behavior are vital to understanding and exploiting the chemical bonding and reactivity of the heavy elements.

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Research offers new insights for maximizing sugar production in biofuel crops.

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Model predicts smaller decrease in total corn yields than previous estimates.

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Researchers developed a new self-generating lubricant with great potential for industrial applications.

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Crests of watery waves breaking in oil may be the gatekeepers to transport vital chemicals in industrial separation process.

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $8 million in funding for 12 research awards on a range of topics in both basic and use-inspired research in particle accelerator science and technology.

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Charged particles emanating from Jupiter’s magnetosphere are powered up to create the northern and southern lights on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.

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The American Midwest’s Great Prairie is one of the country’s most important ecological systems and its soil microbes are essential to the carbon cycle. The Great Prairie Metagenome Grand Challenge is sequencing the genes of microbial communities to better understand their ecological role.

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In magnetic confinement fusion devices known as tokamaks, the maximum operational density limits the efficiency and now we know how this limit may be overcome.

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The Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs issued its first Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Fiscal Year 2019.

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Enabling beams to respond to plasma conditions in real time allows scientists to avoid instabilities and raise performance.

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New technique allows the spatiotemporal control of laser intensity, potentially changing the way laser-based accelerators are optimized.

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Collaboration powers machine learning software that performs data analytics on petabyte-sized data sets in series of successful test runs.