Shattered Argon Pellet Injection Technology for Fusion Reactors
As scientists study approaches to best sustain a fusion reactor, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory investigated injecting shattered argon pellets into a…
As scientists study approaches to best sustain a fusion reactor, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory investigated injecting shattered argon pellets into a…
An obstacle to generating fusion reactions inside facilities called tokamaks is that producing the current in plasma that helps create confining magnetic fields happens in…
Scientists devise new catalyst that uses light to turn carbon dioxide to fuel. The concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is steadily increasing, and…
It reveals an abrupt transition in cuprates where particles give up their individuality; the results flip a popular theory on its head. Every character has…
A new fault system on the seafloor was discovered off California’s coast by temporarily transforming a pre-existing underwater fiber optic cable into an array of…
How a liquid interacts with the surface of a solid is important in batteries and fuel cells, chemical production, corrosion phenomena, and many biological processes….
The radioactive decay of potassium-40 in Earth’s core is considered one of the main sources of heat powering the geodynamo that generates Earth’s magnetic field….
Microbiomes play essential roles in the natural processes that keep the planet and our bodies healthy, so it’s not surprising that scientists’ investigations into these…
Scientists pioneer technique for working with topological materials. Topological materials have become a hot topic in quantum materials research, as they have potential applications for…
Computer simulations yield a much more accurate picture of these states of matter. Strange metals make interesting bedfellows for a phenomenon known as high-temperature superconductivity,…
Metal-organic framework material requires only water and air to convert the captured gas into nitric acid for industrial use. An international team of scientists, led…
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument begins final testing, setting the stage for a 5-year survey that will analyze the light of 35 million galaxies. A…
Experiments at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are casting a new light on Egyptian soil and ancient mummified bone samples…
Using light to generate order in an exotic material: Physics experiment with ultrafast laser pulses produces a previously unseen phase of matter. Adding energy to…
Successful demonstration of algorithm by Berkeley Lab-University of California Berkeley, team shows technique could be viable for scientific light sources around the globe. Synchrotron light…
New blueprint for affordable, sustainable ‘flow batteries’ developed at Berkeley Lab for renewable energy could accelerate an electrical grid powered by the sun and wind….
Physicists get closer to solving the proton radius puzzle with unique new measurement of the charge radius of the proton. New measurement yields smaller proton…
If humankind reaches Mars this century, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-developed experiment testing advanced materials for spacecraft may play a key role. NASA is considering…