Pandora Mission To Study Stars and Exoplanets Passes Crucial Step
The Pandora mission, co-led by a national laboratory and a NASA flight center, has passed a crucial step on its path to study stars and…
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Innovative New Algorithms Advance the Computing Power of Early-Stage Quantum Computers
A group of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has developed computational quantum algorithms that are capable of efficient and highly accurate…
Quantum Breakthrough: How To Transform Vacancies Into Quantum Information
Team’s findings could help the design of industrially relevant quantum materials for sensing, computing, and communication. “Vacancy” is a sign you want to see when…
Advanced Photon Source Helps Pfizer Create COVID-19 Antiviral Treatment Paxlovid
The new drug, Paxlovid, significantly reduced hospitalization and death in adult patients and is authorized for emergency use in the United States. On December 22,…
These Tiny Liquid Robots Never Run Out of Energy As Long as They Have Food
By removing electricity from equation, discovery overcomes yearslong hurdle in robotics. When you think of a robot, images of R2-D2 or C-3PO might come to…
Creating the Heart of a Quantum Computer: Developing Qubits
A computer is suspended from the ceiling. Delicate lines and loops of silvery wires and tubes connect gold-colored platforms. It seems to belong in a…
Turning Up the Heat: Thermal Energy Storage Could Help Decarbonize Buildings
Berkeley Lab research efforts in advanced materials and cost analyses give major boost to an overlooked technology. Could a tank of ice or hot water…
Science Made Simple: What Are Neutron Stars?
A giant star faces several possible fates when it dies in a supernova. That star can either be completely destroyed, become a black hole, or…
Science Made Simple: What Are Supernovae?
A supernova is the colossal explosion of a star. Scientists have identified several types of supernova. One type, called a “core-collapse” supernova, occurs in the…
Science Made Simple: What Are High Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas?
High energy density (HED) laboratory plasmas are perhaps the most extreme states of matter ever produced on Earth. Normal plasmas are one of the four…
Graphene Nanoribbon Breakthrough Could Lead to High-Speed, Low-Power Nanoscale Data Storage
Technique Tunes Into Graphene Nanoribbons’ Electronic Potential Ever since graphene – a thin carbon sheet just one-atom thick – was discovered more than 15 years…
Science Made Simple: What Is Machine Learning?
Machine learning is the process of using computers to detect patterns in massive datasets and then make predictions based on what the computer learns from…
Science Made Simple: What Is Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) simply means intelligence in machines, in contrast to natural intelligence found in humans and other natural organisms. Artificial intelligence gained its name…
The Aftermath of Neutron Star Collisions – Where Heavy Elements Are Made
Nuclear physicists used supercomputers to model the extreme state left behind after two ultra-dense neutron stars merged and formed a black hole. Their models showed…
New Performance Benchmark: Measuring a Quantum Computer’s Power Just Got Faster and More Accurate
Scientists at Sandia National Labs invent new yardstick for benchmarking performance. What does a quantum computer have in common with a top draft pick in…
New All-Season Smart-Roof Coating Enables Year-Round Energy Savings
Breakthrough regulates household temperature without consuming natural gas or electricity. Scientists have developed an all-season smart-roof coating that keeps homes warm during the winter and…
New Research Shows Plants Are Photosynthesizing More in Response to More CO2 in the Atmosphere
Plants Buy Us Time to Slow Climate Change – But Not Enough to Stop It New research from Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley shows that…
Fast-Forwarding Quantum Evolution: Physical Features Boost the Efficiency of Quantum Simulations
Two recent papers settle long-standing questions about algorithms on future quantum computers. Recent theoretical breakthroughs have settled two long-standing questions about the viability of simulating…