June 1, 2022
How Buildings Contribute to Urban Heating during Heat Waves
A bottom-up approach quantifies the contributions of human-caused heating from building energy use during extreme heat events.
May 31, 2022
How Can Changes to Urban Neighborhoods and Buildings Affect Microclimates and Energy Use?
Computational work uses a Chicago neighborhood to understand and quantify climate effects on building energy use from changes in urban design.
May 25, 2022
Capturing Biogeochemical Details in River Corridor Models
A new way of representing river-groundwater exchanges paves the way for next-generation river network modeling.
May 23, 2022
Not Just Pollen in the Spring: Wild Grass Releases a Variety of Particles into the Air
Researchers find that fungal spores are most abundant during initial growth, while bacteria predominate during flowering and fruit development.
May 9, 2022
How Does Drizzle Form? Machine Learning Improves Models of these Processes
Machine Learning offers New Insights and New Parameterization for the path from Drizzle Drops to Warm Rain
May 5, 2022
Recycling Greenhouse Gases with Biotechnology
Biological production of acetone and isopropanol by gas fermentation captures more carbon than it releases.
April 19, 2022
Peatland Plants Hide Responses to Environmental Change
Fine roots grow dramatically faster in an experimentally warmed peatland
April 14, 2022
Machine Learning Helps Predict Protein Functions
Computers learn from a combination of experimental and evolutionary data to enhance the function of useful proteins.
April 12, 2022
Predicting Methane Dynamics during Drought Recovery
A new model predicts small-scale differences in methane emissions from tropical soils on a hillside during drought and recovery.
April 7, 2022
Better Clouds than Ever with New Exascale Computing-Ready Atmosphere Model
Scientists demonstrate the value of a new global atmosphere model for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model.