A research team that includes two University of Oregon physicists has outlined new techniques for controlling the building blocks of quantum computing, a potentially significant…
Experiments in a chamber under Martian-like conditions in a University of Oregon lab suggest that small sparks may be triggered by friction under normal atmospheric…
Two papers led by graduate students document that the river’s lower region long ago held a vast marine tidal basin and humid paleoclimate. A team…
Project using roundworms uncovers a mechanism that leads to male infertility caused by high temperatures. University of Oregon biologists have used the model organism Caenorhabditis…
University of Oregon and Northwestern University biologists show that too many crossover events can increase infertility. The exchange of DNA between chromosomes during the early…
Study led by a University of Oregon physicist reconfigures a distance-calculation technique built around empirical observations. Using known distances of 50 galaxies from Earth to…
Using a new approach, they were able to study and improve the water-dissociation reaction that rips apart water molecules in membrane-based electrochemical reactors. University of…
University of Oregon researchers find that smaller catalytic nanoparticles may be vital for many kinds of devices that convert solar energy into chemical fuels like…
New seismic data provide structural basis for strong earthquakes that strike at both ends of the Pacific Northwest fault zone. With four years of data…
An overactive immune system during childhood among young people in Ecuador’s indigenous Shuar population comes with a cost: stunted growth. That was the key finding…
The average American drinks more than three cups of coffee a day, contributing to a $40 billion industry in the U.S. alone, according to the…