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Los Alamos-led study finds how to improve natural gas production in shale; hydrocarbon transport within nanopores

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A new hydrocarbon study led by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory contradicts conventional wisdom about how methane is trapped in rock, revealing a new strategy to access the valuable energy resource more easily. Their open-access study is published in Nature’s new Communications Earth & Environment journal.

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New process uses localized surface plasmons for room-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO

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Although the researchers demonstrated this method in a small-scale, highly controlled environment with dimensions of just nanometers (billionths of a meter), they have already come up with concepts for scaling up the method and making it practical for real-world applications.

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Researchers develop cheaper, greener biofuels processing catalyst using waste metals and bacteria

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A team from the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois, with colleagues from the University of Birmingham and Aarhus University, have developed a nanosized bio-Pd/C catalyst for upgrading algal bio-oil. The Natural Environment Research Council, UK also supported this research. —B.K.

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Baker Institute expert suggests assumptions about oil’s influence on politics in the Middle East should be reversed

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Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute. A Reader,” which was co-edited by Raphael Heffron and Gavin Little and published by Edinburgh University Press. In turn, these attitudes have encouraged energy-intense habits, influencing the design of the built environment and guiding patterns of human settlement.

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Researchers develop efficient single-atom Ni catalyst for conversion of CO2 to CO

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—Haotian Wang, a Rowland Fellow at Harvard University and the corresponding author. Based on the results from the studies at Harvard, NSLS-II, CFN, and additional institutions, the scientists discovered single nickel atoms catalyzed the CO 2 conversion reaction with a maximal of 97% efficiency. —Haotian Wang.

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Stanford researchers develop copper-based catalyst that produces ethanol from CO at room temperature; potential for closed-loop CO2-to-fuel process

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Researchers at Stanford University have developed a nanocrystalline copper material that produces multi-carbon oxygenates (ethanol, acetate and n-propanol) with up to 57% Faraday efficiency at modest potentials (–0.25?volts —Matthew Kanan, an assistant professor of chemistry at Stanford and coauthor of the Nature study.

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Wireless Worries Overshadow Triumphs of RF Research

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Both are very important for a host of applications—medical treatments, occupational health, and safety studies for consumer electronics, for example. For example, a number of scientists are surveying levels of RF fields in the environment, to address the public's health concerns. What makes the first so much simpler than the latter?