A new class of 2D materials known as MXenes holds the key to next-generation applications, such as consumer electronics and medical devices. Now, collaborative research led by Zahra Fakhraai and Aleksandra Vojvodic of the University of Pennsylvania offers fundamental insights into the chemical and geometric mechanisms underlying the synthesis of these materials, a finding that could lead to cleaner, quicker energy conversion and storage for these devices.

Researchers at Caltech and Gran Sasso Science Institute in Italy teamed up with Google DeepMind to develop a new AI method–called Deep Loop Shaping–that can better hush unwanted noise in LIGO's detectors.

The University of Michigan has received a five-year, $15 million grant to fund the Center for Land Surface Hazards. CLaSH will draw together expertise from dozens of academic, governmental and community partners to study fundamental science processes that cause landsliding, river erosion, debris flows and flooding which can occur after other natural disasters.  

It comes from a University at Buffalo-led team that introduced a new and rigorous experimental method to determine the acidity of 10 types of PFAS and three of their common breakdown products. 

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The University of Maryland will lead an eight-country research consortium to develop an artificial intelligence-powered early warning system to help communities prepare for and respond to diarrheal disease risks – and potentially other conditions – worsened by extreme weather events.

Scientists from Auburn University and international collaborators have uncovered the strongest protein-protein bond ever recorded in nature. Their discovery explains why Staphylococcus aureus, a leading cause of skin infections, clings so stubbornly to human skin — and points to new ways of fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Research led by University of Utah and Stanford analyzed thallium isotopes to show oxygen was slow to reach Earth’s ocean depths during the Paleozoic. O2 levels rose and fell at the ocean floor long after marine animals appeared and diversified half billion years ago, according to study of ancient marine sediments exposed by river cuts in Canada's Yukon.

Rice computer scientists have developed algorithms that account for quantum noise that is not just random, but malicious interference from an adversary.

African easterly waves, which directly impact communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, are shown to intensify during La Niña, advancing our understanding of how these weather systems influence storm activity.