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Carbon emissions from power plants can be reduced with a new 3D-printed superalloy

Carbon emissions from power plants can be reduced with a new 3D-printed superalloy

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Using copper nanowires to combat the spread of diseases

Using copper nanowires to combat the spread of diseases

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Safe, low-cost, energy-dense, and long-lifetime solid-state sodium batteries

Safe, low-cost, energy-dense, and long-lifetime solid-state sodium batteries

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New atomic sensors could lead to a new generation of smart materials

New atomic sensors could lead to a new generation of smart materials

Scientists at Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley convert diamonds’ atomic flaws into atomic sensors with front-row seats to a quantum world of materials under extreme pressure Since their invention m... Read more

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Printing flexible electronics on almost anything using a new heat-free technique

Printing flexible electronics on almost anything using a new heat-free technique

Martin Thuo of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory clicked through the photo gallery for one of his research projects. How about this one? There was a rose with metal traces printe... Read more

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Enabling ultrafast quantum computing

Enabling ultrafast quantum computing

Jigang Wang patiently explained his latest discovery in quantum control that could lead to superfast computing based on quantum mechanics. He mentioned light-induced superconductivity withou... Read more

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Fleets of drones can become real – just a few obstacles to overcome

Fleets of drones can become real - just a few obstacles to overcome

Search and rescue crews are already using drones to locate missing hikers. Farmers are flying them over fields to survey crops. And delivery companies will soon use drones to drop packages a... Read more

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A new class of mosquito repellents based on naturally occurring compounds that are effective in repelling mosquitoes

A new of mosquito repellents based on naturally occurring compounds that are effective in repelling mosquitoes

Nearly 700 million people suffer from mosquito-borne diseases — such as malaria, West Nile, Zika and dengue fever — each year, resulting in more than 1 million deaths. Increasingly, many spe... Read more

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Cheap sensors-on-tape can be attached to plants and provide new kinds of data to researchers and farmers

Cheap sensors-on-tape can be attached to plants and provide new kinds of data to researchers and farmers

Iowa State University plant scientist Patrick Schnable quickly described how he measured the time it takes for two kinds of corn plants to move water from their roots, to their lower leaves... Read more

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A nanovaccine for the flu

A nanovaccine for the flu

For many of us, a flu shot is a fall routine. Roll up a sleeve, take a needle to the upper arm and hope this year’s vaccine matches whichever viruses circulate through the winter. The most c... Read more

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Quasiparticles could lead to faster circuits and higher bandwidths

Quasiparticles could lead to faster circuits and higher bandwidths

Zhe Fei pointed to the bright and dark vertical lines running across his computer screen. This nano-image, he explained, shows the waves associated with a half-light, half-matter quasipartic... Read more

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Taller wind turbine towers could enable wind energy production in all 50 states

Taller wind turbine towers could enable wind energy production in all 50 states

Sri Sritharan called up a digital map of the United States and pointed to a dark blue band running through the middle of the country. That’s wind country. The blue band runs east from the Ro... Read more

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An electricity generator that mimics trees

An electricity generator that mimics trees

Money doesn’t grow on trees, but electricity might someday. Iowa State University scientists have built a device that mimics the branches and leaves of a cottonwood tree and generates electr... Read more

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Engineers treat printed graphene with lasers to enable cheap paper electronics and commercial devices

Engineers treat printed graphene with lasers to enable cheap paper electronics and commercial devices

The researchers in Jonathan Claussen’s lab at Iowa State University (who like to call themselves nanoengineers) have been looking for ways to use graphene and its amazing properties in their... Read more

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A quick-destructing battery to power ‘transient’ devices

A quick-destructing battery to power ‘transient’ devices

Self-destructing electronic devices could keep military secrets out of enemy hands. Or they could save patients the pain of removing a medical device. Or, they could allow environmental sens... Read more

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