Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are contributing to the global fight against COVID-19 by combining artificial intelligence/machine learning, bioinformatics, and supercomputing to help discover…
To deter attempts to disable U.S. electrical utilities and to defend U.S. nuclear weapon systems from evolving technological threats, Sandia National Laboratories has begun two…
X-ray Imaging Reveals Insights into a Natural Mosquito-Killing Compound Study of a mosquito-targeting toxin produced by bacteria could lead to safer and more effective anti-mosquito…
The beauty in science shines through at RHIC’s STAR detector and makes a cosmic connection. These images capture the movement and collisions of “cosmic rays”—mysterious…
Permanent magnets akin to those used on refrigerators could speed the development of fusion energy – the same energy produced by the sun and stars….
These inexpensive photosensitizers could make solar power and chemical manufacturing more efficient. Experiments at SLAC offer insight into how they work. Photosensitizers are molecules that…
RHIC measurements of ‘hypertriton’ and ‘antihypertriton’ binding energy and mass explore strange-matter interactions and test for ‘CPT’ violation. New results from precision particle detectors at…
Florida State University physicists believe they have an answer to unusual incidents of rare decay of a subatomic particle called a Kaon that were reported…
Berkeley Lab scientists tap into graphene’s hidden talent as an electrically tunable superconductor, insulator, and magnetic device for the advancement of quantum information science. Ever…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Tennessee Valley Authority have signed a memorandum of understanding to evaluate a new generation…
Two-day notice lets satellite operators take protective measures against energetic electrons. A new machine-learning computer model accurately predicts damaging radiation storms caused by the Van…
Last year, researchers at Fermilab received over $3.5 million for projects that delve into the burgeoning field of quantum information science. Research funded by the…
In the first direct probes of the core of the nuclear interaction, researchers find that leading theories on interactions between protons and neutrons describe them…
One of the biggest mysteries in science began with a dying star. It wasn’t any particular dying star so much as the idea of one….
A key hurdle facing fusion devices called stellarators — twisty facilities that seek to harness on Earth the fusion reactions that power the sun and…
Scientists have collected evidence suggesting that a purely electronic mechanism causes copper-oxygen compounds to conduct electricity without resistance at temperatures well above absolute zero. When…
Scientists Learn More about the First Hours of a Lithium-ion Battery’s Life The first hours of a lithium-ion battery’s life largely determine just how well…
Closely Spaced Hydrogen Atoms Could Facilitate Superconductivity in Ambient Conditions An international team of researchers has discovered the hydrogen atoms in a metal hydride material…