Author:
Dusty Rhodes, Arts and Humanities Editor
Published Date:May 15, 2013
University of Illinois English professor Ted Underwood recently wrapped up a research project involving more than 4,200 books. Since that work revealed dramatic shifts in the English language between the 18th and 19th centuries, hes now expanding his research to include more than 470,000 books almost every English language book written during that era and preserved in a university library.
Author:
Dusty Rhodes, Arts and Humanities Editor
Published Date:
May 15, 2013
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:April 30, 2013
Three faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been elected 2013 fellows of the National Academy of Sciences. Eduardo Fradkin, Martin Gruebele and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer are among the 84 new members and 21 foreign associates announced by the academy on April 30.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
April 30, 2013
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:April 29, 2013
There's hope for patients with myotonic dystrophy. A new small molecule developed by researchers at the University of Illinois has been shown to break up the protein-RNA clusters that cause the disease in living human cells, an important first step toward developing a pharmaceutical treatment for the as-yet untreatable disease.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
April 29, 2013
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:April 22, 2013
When a team of University of Illinois engineers set out to grow nanowires of a compound semiconductor on top of a sheet of graphene, they did not expect to discover a new paradigm of epitaxy.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
April 22, 2013
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:April 19, 2013
A new global-scale modeling study that takes into account nitrogen a key nutrient for plants estimates that carbon emissions from human activities on land were 40 percent higher in the 1990s than in studies that did not account for nitrogen.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
April 19, 2013
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:April 16, 2013
Though they be but little, they are fierce. The most powerful batteries on the planet are only a few millimeters in size, yet they pack such a punch that a driver could use a cellphone powered by these batteries to jump-start a dead car battery and then recharge the phone in the blink of an eye.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
April 16, 2013
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:April 10, 2013
A new class of tiny, injectable LEDs is illuminating the deep mysteries of the brain.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
April 10, 2013
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:March 18, 2013
Illinois chemists have used DNA to do a proteins job, creating opportunities for DNA to find work in more areas of biology, chemistry and medicine than ever before.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
March 18, 2013
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:March 18, 2013
To engineers, its a tale as old as time: Electrical current is carried through materials by flowing electrons. But physicists at the University of Illinois and the University of Pennsylvania found that for copper-containing superconductors, known as cuprates, electrons are not enough to carry the current.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
March 18, 2013
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:March 11, 2013
Hidden in a tiny tile of interwoven DNA is a message. The message is simple, but decoding it unlocks the secret of dynamic nanoscale assembly.
Author:
Liz Ahlberg, Physical Sciences Editor
Published Date:
March 11, 2013
