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30-Oct-2025

Scientists unlock new energy potential in iron-based materials

Stanford University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have created a more energy dense storage material for iron-based batteries. The breakthrough could also improve applications in MRI technology and magnetic levitation.

Journal: Nature Materials
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation, Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency

30-Oct-2025

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators awards to UCSB experimentalists opens the door to new insights and innovations

University of California - Santa Barbara
Grant and Award Announcement

UC Santa Barbara physicists Sebastian Streichan, David Patterson and Andrea Young are among the 22 mid-career researchers to be named Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators this year. They join 19 other physicists from around the country who will receive $1.3 million in support over five years for their innovative work to advance the frontier of fundamental research in experimental physics.

30-Oct-2025

'Really bizarre and exciting': The quantum oscillations are coming from inside

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team of researchers and a really strong magnetic field help answer a question about the 'new duality' in materials physics

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy

30-Oct-2025

UBCO study debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation

University of British Columbia Okanagan campus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

It’s a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization’s supercomputer.

But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically proven this isn’t just unlikely—it’s impossible.

30-Oct-2025

How do planets get wet? Experiments show water creation during planet formation process

Carnegie Institution for Science
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans and primitive atmospheres during their early years. New experimental work demonstrates that large quantities of water are created as a natural consequence of planet formation. It represents a major step forward in how we think about the search for distant worlds capable of hosting life.

Journal: Nature
Funder: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

30-Oct-2025

New study explores ‘legacy effects’ of soil microbes on plants across Kansas

University of Kansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Findings from the University of Kansas could offer important context for farmers who want to use beneficial microbes to improve yields. Today, microbial commercialization in agriculture represents an expanding multibillion dollar sector.

Journal: Nature Microbiology
Funder: Division of Integrative Organismal Systems

30-Oct-2025

Meggers Project Award granted to PhET Interactive Simulations

American Institute of Physics
Grant and Award Announcement

AIP has awarded $25,000 to the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder for the team’s proposed project, “Electricity and Magnetism with PhET Interactive Simulations: A Professional Learning Course and Community for Teachers.” PhET Interactive Simulations is an open educational resource that allows students to simulate science experiments online and hosts more than 170 free interactive simulations in physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and math.