What Is It Like To Work at a Particle Accelerator?
A day in the life of two accelerator experts Kathleen Ratcliffe and Tien Fak Tan have cooperated over the last several years to help create…
A day in the life of two accelerator experts Kathleen Ratcliffe and Tien Fak Tan have cooperated over the last several years to help create…
Sandwiching wiggly proteins between two other layers allows scientists to get the most detailed images yet of a protein that’s key to the spread of…
A laser compressing an aluminum crystal provides a clearer view of a material’s plastic deformation, potentially leading to the design of stronger nuclear fusion materials…
A cellphone-sized device automatically adjusts a home’s power use up or down to save the consumer money and increase the resiliency of the electric grid….
Scientists have taken a significant step in understanding these whirling quasiparticles and putting them to work in future semiconductor technologies. Researchers reported that they have…
“Fingerprinting” Minerals To Better Understand How They Are Affected by Meteorite Collisions Researchers mimicked these extreme impacts in the lab and discovered new details about…
X-ray laser experiments show that intense light distorts the structure of a thermoelectric material in a unique way, opening a new avenue for controlling the…
Scientists discover that triggering superconductivity with a flash of light involves the same fundamental physics that are at work in the more stable states needed…
The chemically controlled chains reveal an ultrastrong attraction between electrons that may help cuprate superconductors carry electrical current with no loss at relatively high temperatures….
New observations of the atomic structure of iron reveal it undergoes “twinning” under extreme stress and pressure. Far below you lies a sphere of solid…
A new analysis of the South Pole-based telescope’s cosmic microwave background observations has all but ruled out several popular models of inflation. Physicists looking for…
Spawned by the spins of electrons in magnetic materials, these tiny whirlpools behave like independent particles and could be the future of computing. Experiments with…
The work sheds light on the web of hydrogen bonds that gives water its strange properties, which play a vital role in many chemical and…
Scientists Take First Snapshots of Ultrafast Switching in a Quantum Electronic Device Researchers discover a short-lived state that could lead to faster and more energy-efficient…
Successful Start of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Follows Record-Setting Trial Run A five-year quest to map the universe and unravel the mysteries of dark…
With a new suite of tools, scientists discovered exactly how tiny plate-like catalyst particles carry out a key step in that conversion – the evolution…
Known as “pair-density waves,” it may be key to understanding how superconductivity can exist at relatively high temperatures. Unconventional superconductors contain a number of exotic…
For the first time, DES scientists can combine measurements of the distribution of matter, galaxies, and galaxy clusters to advance our understanding of dark energy….