University of Houston associate professor of chemistry, Vassiliy Lubchenko, is reporting a new finding in Nature Communications on how sickle cells are formed.
UH Researcher Reports the Way Sickle Cells Form May be Key to Stopping Them
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Shifting U.S. to 100 Percent Renewables Would Cost $4.5 Trillion, Analysis Finds
Converting the entire U.S. power grid to 100 percent renewable energy in the next decade is technologically and logistically attainable, and would cost an estimated $4.5 trillion, according to a recent analysis by the energy research firm Wood Mackenzie.
Getting More Heat Out of Sunlight
A newly developed material that is so perfectly transparent you can barely see it could unlock many new uses for solar heat.
UCI, UC Merced: California Forest Die-Off Caused by Depletion of Deep-Soil Water
A catastrophic forest die-off in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range in 2015-2016 was caused by the inability of trees to reach diminishing supplies of subsurface water following years of severe drought and abnormally warm temperatures.
Deep Submersible Dives Shed Light on Rarely Explored Coral Reefs
Just beyond where conventional scuba divers can go is an area of the ocean that still is largely unexplored. In waters this deep — about 100 to at least 500 feet below the surface — little to no light breaks through.
Why Some Cities Turn Off the Water Pipes at Night
For more than a billion people around the world, running water comes from “intermittent systems” that turn on and off at various times of the week.
