Breakthrough in Supercharging Reactions for Clean Energy Fuel Cells
The demand for clean energy has never been higher, and it has created a global race to develop new technologies as alternatives to fossil fuels….
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Unraveling a Mystery: Bird Brains Left Other Dinosaurs Behind
Today, being “birdbrained” means forgetting where you left your keys or wallet. But 66 million years ago, it may have meant the difference between life…
Clean Energy Breakthrough: Making Hydrogen Is Hard, but Researchers Just Solved a Major Hurdle
For decades, researchers around the world have searched for ways to use solar power to generate the key reaction for producing hydrogen as a clean…
Exotic Beetle That Can Survive in Volcanic Areas Inspires New Cooling Materials
A type of beetle capable of regulating its body temperature in some of the hottest places on Earth is the centerpiece of new research with…
Optical Tweezer Technology Breakthrough Overcomes Dangers of Heat
Three years ago, Arthur Ashkin won the Nobel Prize for inventing optical tweezers, which use light in the form of a high-powered laser beam to capture and…
Conclusive Review Finds Evidence Against Physically Punishing Kids Is Clear
A conclusive narrative review has found physical punishment of children is not effective in preventing child behavior problems or promoting positive outcomes and instead predicts…
Staged Alert COVID-19 System Linked to Shorter Lockdowns and Lives Saved
A staged alert system, designed by scientists and public health officials to guide local policies, helped one city prevent hospital surges and long lockdowns, according…
Which Way Does the Solar Wind Blow? Supercomputers Improve Space Weather Prediction
Using supercomputers, researchers develop new software for improved space weather prediction. The surface of the sun churns with energy and frequently ejects masses of highly-magnetized…
A Glowing New Weapon in the Fight Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
In the perpetual arms races between bacteria and human-made antibiotics, there is a new tool to give human medicine the edge, in part by revealing…
Solving a Natural Riddle of Water Filtration to Create Clean Water While Consuming Less Energy
For many engineers and scientists, nature is the world’s greatest muse. They seek to better understand natural processes that have evolved over millions of years,…
New Research Finds Good News for Designing the Next Generation of Coronaviruses Vaccines
Our Immune Systems Blanket the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein With Antibodies The most complete picture yet is coming into focus of how antibodies produced in people…
Newly Discovered Climate-Friendly Microbes Chomp Dead Plants Without Releasing Heat-Trapping Methane
The tree of life just got a little bigger: A team of scientists from the U.S. and China has identified an entirely new group of…
The Arecibo Radio Telescope Collapsed Last December, but Its Legacy of Discovery and Innovation Continues
The Arecibo Observatory, UCF, TACC, the University of Puerto Rico, EPOC, Globus, CICoE Pilot partner to move telescope data to Ranch system. Millions of people…
Searching for New Physics in the Subatomic World
Particle physicists use lattice quantum chromodynamics and supercomputers to search for physics beyond the Standard Model. Peer deeper into the heart of the atom than…
How to Train a Robot (Using Artificial Intelligence and Supercomputers)
UT Arlington computer scientists use TACC systems to generate synthetic objects for robot training. Before he joined the University of Texas at Arlington as an…
Highly Contagious Coronavirus Variant Spread Across the Globe – Undetected for Months – Before Its Discovery
A highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 variant was unknowingly spreading for months in the United States by October 2020, according to a new study from researchers with…
Meandering Rivers Naturally Create “Counter-Point Bars” No Matter Underlying Geology
It’s not uncommon for crescent-shaped swaths of sand to dot the shorelines of meandering rivers. These swaths usually appear along the inner side of a…
Supercomputer Analysis Reveals Why UK, South Africa Coronavirus Variants Are More Contagious, Deadly
TACC’s Frontera supercomputer aids in building infection models of COVID-19 variants. All viruses mutate as they make copies of themselves to spread and thrive. SARS-CoV-2,…