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Molecular scaffolding with blue and black balls, silver connections and iridescent green bubbles.

Effective Defects for Quantum Computers

By Aaron Dubrow published

Defects are usually a bad thing, but not in quantum computing.

Quantum Physics
A Colorado hillside that should be green with living lodgepole pines is brown and dead because of an infestation by mountain pine beetles.

Insect Outbreaks Kill Forests and Release Carbon

By Melanie Bateman published

How invasive beetles are causing climate change

Climate Change
The ideal crystalline structure of graphene is a hexagonal grid.

Fast and Ultra-Thin: Graphene Nanotransistors

By Aaron Dubrow published

Bhagawan Sahu is part of a nationwide search to find nanoscale materials that can replace silicon transistors by the year 2020.

Engineering
superoxide dismutase aggregates

Spinning Samples Yield Insights into Disease and Harnessing Solar Power

By Aaron Dubrow published

Supercomputers help researchers find deeper insight into the purity, structure and behavior of proteins, DNA and RNA.

Human Behavior
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station

100 Years of Humans in Antarctica

By Lily Whiteman published

Antarctica holds a cornucopia of fantastic life forms, geologic wonders and atmospheric conditions for scientists to study.

Antarctica
national science foundation, nsf, behind the scenes, bts, renewable energy, biofuel production, energy from cellulose, enzyme degradation of cellulose,

Making Nature's Best Better To Produce Biofuels

By Aaron Dubrow published

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory uses supercomputer simulations to explore designer enzymes for renewable fuels.

Human Behavior
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What Glows Beneath: Illuminating the Mysteries of the Unseen

By The Informal Science Education Program, Informal Settings (DRL/EHR) published

Scientists continue their search for bioluminescent and biofluorescent organisms in coral reefs around the world.

Human Behavior
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Unlocking the Details to How Volcanoes Work

By Dennis K. Walikaninen published

Greg Waite is studying the "mini-earthquakes" caused by small eruptions in order to unlock details about how all eruptions unfold.

Volcanos
national science foundation, nsf, behind the scenes, bts, Sandi Copeland, Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Marlene Cimons, evolution, hominids, social behavior

Our Male Ancestors Stayed Close to Home, While Females Wandered About

By Marlene Cimons published

Evolution
behind the scenes, bts, national science foundation, nsf, LED, LED lighting, light, energy, downlights, Cree TrueWhite technology, Cree LED Lighting, Jacob Gersh, ARPA-E, led lighting versus fluorescents, led lighting versus traditional, what's good about

Alternative LED Lighting Combats Energy Crisis

By Jacob Gersh published

Cree replaces traditional and toxic fluorescent lighting with LEDs.

Human Behavior
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