Iron 'snow' helps maintain Mercury's magnetic field, scientists ...

Iron 'Snow' Helps Maintain Mercury's Magnetic Field, Scientists...
New scientific evidence suggests that deep inside the planet Mercury, iron "snow" forms and falls toward the center of the planet, much like...

Mandate for biofuels production requires science-based policy...
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) In his State of the Union Address on Jan. 23, 2007, President Bush stated that, in order to...

NSF funds new 'Center for the Physics of Living Cells' at...
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) The National Science Foundation announced this month that it is funding a new Physics Frontiers Center...

Water is 'designer fluid' that helps proteins change shape,...
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) According to new research, old ideas about water behavior are all wet.Ubiquitous on Earth, water also...

Miscanthus can meet US biofuels goal using less land than corn...
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) In the largest field trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have determined that the giant...