Improving Solar Cell Efficiency With Nanowire Arrays
Transparent electrodes are a critical component of solar cells and electronic displays. To collect electricity in a solar cell or inject electricity for a display,…
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Physicists Demonstrate How Hydrogen Becomes Metallic Inside Gas Giant Planets
Swirling dense metallic hydrogen dominates the interiors of Jupiter, Saturn and many extra-solar planets. Building precise models of these giant planets requires an accurate description…
Astronomers Reveal That Jupiter is the Oldest Planet in Our Solar System
New research from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reveals that Jupiter is the oldest planet in our solar system. By looking at tungsten and molybdenum…
Evidence of Weibel-Generated Magnetic Fields
Using a proton probe to directly image electromagnetic fields, scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory present evidence of Weibel-generated magnetic fields that grow in…
Warming Hiatus Caused in Part by Small Volcanic Eruptions
Researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory show that the “warming hiatus” that has occurred over the last 15 years has been caused in part…
NASA Data Show Earth’s Deep Ocean Has Not Warmed
Using 2005-2013 data from the Argo buoys, NASA’s Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites and GRACE satellites, scientists found that deep ocean warming contributed virtually nothing to…
LLNL Engineers Create New Microscale Energy Absorbing Material
Engineers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a way to design and fabricate new microscale cushioning materials with a broad range of programmable…
Scientists Experimentally Recreate Conditions That Exist Deep Inside Giant Planets
Using the largest laser in the world, scientists were able to experimentally recreate the conditions that exist deep inside giant planets for the first time….
Astronomers Identify the Orbit and Size of Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b
Using the Gemini Planet Imager, astronomers have identified the orbit and the size of exoplanet Beta Pictoris b. Using one of the world’s largest telescopes,…
Scientists Confirm that Life Really Could Have Come from Out of This World
A newly published study shows that the basic building blocks of life as we know it can be assembled anywhere in the Solar System, confirming…
Study Suggests Life on Earth is the Result of Icy Comets
A newly published study suggests that life on earth may have started as a result of icy comets that crashed into Earth billions of years…
A New Record in Supercomputing, Researchers Break Million-Core Supercomputer Barrier
The newly installed Sequoia IBM Bluegene/Q system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories set a new record in computational science by successfully becoming the first supercomputer…
US National Ignition Facility Rethinks its Strategy for Laser Fusion
The failure of the US National Ignition Facility’s six-year campaign to demonstrate fusion in the lab has the government deciding on a more methodical path…
Scientists Explore How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Cosmos
A newly published paper details how scientists created a model for exploring how electromagnetic fields help organize ionized gas in astrophysical settings, giving scientists a…
Changes in Ocean Salinity and the Water Cycle Could Affect Food Supplies
While scientists continue to monitor climate change and the cause and effect on the environment, a new study from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory looks…
Researchers Examine Phase Changes for Insight to Planet Formation
Researchers have gained a deeper insight into planet formation by studying the phase changes between different types of melts. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
SLAC Scientists Create First Atomic X-ray Laser
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have created the world’s first “atomic X-ray laser.” By aiming SLAC’s Linac Coherent…