A team of researchers led by labs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Vanderbilt University sequenced and compared the genomes of 332 species of budding yeasts, all members of a subphylum of yeasts that multiply by producing daughter cells from buds on their surface.
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![Blastobotrys americana, seen here growing in colonies in a dish in a UW–Madison lab.](/congress115th/20181203192509im_/https://science.energy.gov/~/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/wisconsin-madison-yeasts-120318-headliner.jpg?h=324&w=576)
New discovery of light absorption law to help climate scientists build better models.
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![Soot particles remain suspended in the atmosphere as coated with organic matter. This coating results in non-linear enhancement of solar light absorption and subsequent heating of the surrounding air by these particles.](/congress115th/20181203192509im_/https://science.energy.gov/~/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/washingtonstl-black-carbon-112918-headliner.jpg?h=324&w=576)
When looking to understand how a promising catalyst splits water, scientists got more than they expected.
Read More ![Ryan Hadt, along with other Argonne chemists Dugan Hayes and Lin Chen, worked with Daniel Nocera from Harvard University to understand one step of the water-splitting reaction in a promising catalyst.](/congress115th/20181203192509im_/https://science.energy.gov/~/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/blog-cobalt-catalyst-112818-headliner.jpg?h=324&w=576)