The Science In a Lake Erie wetland, scientists showed that microbes produce methane in an oxygen-rich environment. This finding disproves the long-accepted idea that oxygen limits microbe’s ability to produce methane. The team performed DNA sequence analyses of samples across the wetland. They uncovered a dominant new species of methane-producing Archaea. This Archaea was also…
Discovery of a New Microbe that Produces Methane in Oxygenated Soils
Buckeye Pi: The Most Powerful Student-Built Supercomputer Made From Raspberry Pis
“We’re geeks, and we’re motivated.” That’s how Amin Amooie, a doctoral student in earth sciences at The Ohio State University, explained his team’s efforts to build the supercomputer they’ve dubbed “Buckeye Pi.” They are just learning how to write computer code for scientific simulations, he said, so it doesn’t make sense to test their code…
New LEDs May Offer Better Way to Clean Water in Remote Areas
For the first time, researchers have created light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on lightweight flexible metal foil. Engineers at The Ohio State University are developing the foil based LEDs for portable ultraviolet (UV) lights that soldiers and others can use to purify drinking water and sterilize medical equipment. In the journal Applied Physics Letters, the researchers describe how…