Materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have a rigid, cage-like structure that lends itself to a variety of applications, from gas storage to drug delivery.…
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This illustration shows how an electronic tug-of-war between the layers of a new quantum material has warped its atomic lattice into a dramatic herringbone-like pattern.…
The proton mass radius is smaller than the electric charge radius (a dense core), while a cloud of scalar gluon activity extends beyond the charge…
Window shades with cellular or honeycomb structures were found to provide higher energy savings during winter than generic venetian blinds, potentially saving millions of tons…
Photo of a plastic bag underwater. A team of scientists, led by Aaron Sadow, a researcher at Ames National Laboratory, Professor of Chemistry at Iowa…
ORNL’s award-winning ultraclean condensing high-efficiency natural gas furnace features an affordable add-on technology that can remove more than 99.9% of acidic gases and other emissions.…
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new technology that can reuse aging electric vehicle batteries by managing them as an energy storage…
NASA and the Department of Energy are collaborating to create an instrument called the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment – Night (LuSEE-Night), which can withstand the…
Sandia National Laboratories bioengineer Susan Rempe, left, and chemical engineer Tuan Ho peer through an artistic representation of the chemical structure of a kind of…
Chemist Dave Heldebrant, a recently selected fellow of the American Chemical Society who holds a joint appointment with Washington State University, has helped design several…
A new method to convert low-density plastic waste to fuel and raw materials promises to help close the carbon cycle. Credit: Art by Melanie Hess-Robinson…
Contours of magnetic fields that emerge a result of self-organization of microscopic currents resulting from the Weibel instability in a carbon dioxide laser-produced plasma probed…
Halo-like solar corona. Credit: NASA Breakthrough in identifying the puzzling cause. Researchers discovered a previously unknown heating mechanism that explains why the “solar corona,” the…
Artistic depiction of electron transfer driven by an ultrashort laser pulse, across an interface between two atomically-thin materials. This transfer is facilitated by an interlayer…
Scientists have developed a new technique for discovering and synthesizing new crystalline materials composed of two or more elements. These materials have potential uses…
Numerical simulation of the neutron stars merging to form a black hole, with their accretion disks interacting to produce electromagnetic waves. Credit: L. Rezolla (AEI)…
Seeding the oceans with nano-scale fertilizers could create a much-needed, substantial carbon sink. Credit: Illustration by Stephanie King | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Iron-based fertilizer…
Nuclear physicists have discovered a revolutionary way to use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory to…
New data show that local fluctuations in the nuclear strong force may influence the spin orientation of particles called phi mesons (made of two quarks…
An illustration depicts a study by SLAC and Stanford, including cryo-EM imaging (left), that discovered how a cellular machine called TRiC (right) directs the folding…