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• Stanford ultraresponsive magnetic nanoscavengers for next generation water purification

  Among its many talents, silver is an antibiotic. Titanium dioxide is known to glom on to certain heavy metals and pollutants. Yet other materials do the same for salt. In recent years, environmental engineers have sought to disinfect, depollute, and desalinate contaminated water using nanoscale part more

• A membrane-free lithium/polysulfide semi-liquid battery for large-scale energy storage

  Scientists in the US have developed a new lithium/polysulfide (Li/PS) semi-liquid battery for large-scale energy storage, with lithium polysulfide (Li2S8) in ether solvent as a catholyte and metallic lithium as an anode. As the catholyte is designed to cycle only in the range between sulfur and Li2S more

• X-ray laser reveals chemical reaction
  

  What happens when a chemical bond is broken? That question was recently answered with the help of a so-called free electron x-ray laser, which makes it possible to follow in real time how bindings in a molecule are changed and broken. The study, published in Science, found, among other things, evide more

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• QnAs with Baldomero M. Olivera [QnAs]

  As an aspiring young biologist in the 1960s, Baldomero Olivera left Stanford University to return to his native Philippines, finding a laboratory devoid of equipment. While applying for research funding, Olivera decided to study something local and inexpensive, recalling from his childhood that cert more

• [News of the Week] Newsmakers

  This week's Newsmakers are Stephen Quake of Stanford University, who has won the Lemelson-MIT Prize; David Jewitt of UCLA, Jane Luu of MIT, Franz-Ulrich Hartl of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Arthur Horwich of Yale University, and Maxim Kontsevich of the Institute for Advanced Scientific more

• Profile of Lee D. Ross [Profiles]

  Social psychologist Lee Ross has never felt content to confine his research to the laboratory. He prefers to wade knee-deep through global issues, finding ways to apply his expertise to problems ranging from climate change and healthcare to education and the legal system. Ross, a professor of psycho more

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