Safe, Clean and Limitless Energy: A Landmark Plan for Realizing Fusion Power
Creating and controlling on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars is a key goal of scientists around the world. Production of…
Creating and controlling on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars is a key goal of scientists around the world. Production of…
Novel nanostructure design lends extraordinary strength to a promising storage ingredient. The same material you’ll find at the tip of a pencil — graphite —…
Scientists at Ames Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the University of Alabama Birmingham have discovered a light-induced switching mechanism in a Dirac semimetal. The mechanism…
Turning a brittle oxide into a flexible membrane and stretching it on a tiny apparatus flipped it from a conducting to an insulating state and…
Technique adapted at Berkeley Lab X-ray facility finds growing use for next-gen battery R&D. From next-gen smartphones to longer-range electric cars and an improved power…
A collaboration of scientists from the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE’s Brookhaven…
2D perovskite thin films boost sensitivity 100-fold compared to conventional detectors, require no outside power source, and enable low-dose dental and medical images. A new…
Physicists’ discovery could lead to a new family of robust qubits for quantum computing. Physicists at MIT and elsewhere have observed evidence of Majorana fermions…
Using a combination of experimental and computational data, researchers discover paths to optimize pulses from highly intense X-ray beams. Scientists have long pursued the ability…
Scientists at Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago search for COVID-19 treatments and analysis. As COVID-19 makes its way around the world, scientists are…
Planetary defense researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) continue to validate their ability to accurately simulate how they might deflect an Earth-bound asteroid in…
Electronically controlled 2-D reflector promises improved microwave communications, beam steering without moving pieces, and one-way microwave mirrors. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are reinventing…
High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory Tests Speed of Light Ultra-high energy gamma rays from the far reaches of the galaxy provide powerful proof that the…
Weighing In on the Origin of Heavy Elements A long-held mystery in the field of nuclear physics is why the universe is composed of the…
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…