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22-Jul-2025

Greenhouse gas accounting procedures in low carbon fuel policies overlook the spatial variability of miscanthus-derived sustainable aviation fuel

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment

Low carbon fuel policies are intended to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transportation. However, rigid carbon intensity (CI) accounting procedures in current policies may limit CI responsiveness across candidate sites and facilities. This study examines how low carbon fuel programs capture or overlook spatial variability and net electricity production in biofuel carbon intensity, influencing crediting outcomes and fuel selling prices.

Journal: ACS Sustainable Resource Management
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

17-Jul-2025

A new pathway helps clean up toxic chemicals from plant cells

Michigan State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A newly discovered pathway in a plant process could help farmers grow more successful crops, particularly in places where harsh, high light stresses plants.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation

16-Jul-2025

How to more efficiently study complex treatment interactions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

A new experimental design framework could enable scientists to efficiently estimate how combinations of interventions will affect a group of cells, reducing the cost of experiments and providing less biased data that could be used to understand disease mechanisms or develop new treatments.

Funder: Advanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program at MIT, Apple, National Institutes of Health, Office of Naval Research, DOE/US Department of Energy, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute, Simons Investigator Award

14-Jul-2025

The secret life of neutrinos

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers, including several from UC San Diego, have shown, through theoretical calculations, how collapsing massive stars can act as a "neutrino collider,” which may result in either a neutron star remnant or black hole remnant, depending on the “flavor” of the neutrinos.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, DOE/US Department of Energy, Heising-Simons Foundation

10-Jul-2025

A quantum tech “holy grail”? Tiny device controls electron spins for future tech

University of Southern California
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have created a microscopic device that can both detect and control the rapid “dance” of electron spins in antiferromagnetic materials — a leap that could enable a new generation of ultrafast, energy-efficient electronics. Until now, scientists could only detect this quantum behavior using bulky lab equipment — making it hard to imagine practical uses in everyday tech.

Journal: Science
Funder: Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), US National Science Foundation, DOE/US Department of Energy, US National Science Foundation

10-Jul-2025