Researcher Xiaojian Bai and his colleagues used neutrons at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source to discover hidden quantum fluctuations in a rather simple iron-iodide material discovered…
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Schematic image of permanent magnet stellarator with plasma in yellow. Red and blue indicate permanent magnets with simplified coils surrounding the vessel. Credit: Coaxing Zhu…
An aerial view of ground zero 28 hours after the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945. The nuclear blast created a newly discovered quasicrystal that…
A real catalyst (background image) and a schematic of a catalytic step (foreground image). Reacting molecules (at left) acquire energy to climb the energy barrier…
POSS-peptoid molecules self-assemble into rhomboid-shaped nanocrystals. Credit: Illustration by Stephanie King | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Inspired by nature, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory…
A new theorem shows that information run through an information scrambler such as a black hole will reach a point where any algorithm will be…
Using ultraviolet light, researchers probed the electronic characteristics of a 2D semiconductor (purple) as the number of substrate layers (green) increased. In the data maps,…
Example of the tiling pattern used in scanning a C. elegans roundworm. The non-grid-based pattern gives the sampling algorithm greater flexibility to quickly zero in…
Projected versus actual outcomes for the U.S. power sector. Credit: Berkeley Lab New Berkeley Lab study reviews progress towards a carbon-free power sector. Concerns about…
Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen is seen working inside the Battery Informatics Lab 1070 in the Arrillaga Science Center, Bldg. 57. Credit: Jacqueline Orrell/SLAC National…
Ion beams can create chains of closely coupled quantum bits (qubits) based on nitrogen-vacancy “color centers” in diamond for use in quantum computing hardware. The…
Only about 2% of plastics are fully recycled currently. PDK plastics could solve the single-use crisis. A new environmental and technological analysis suggests that a…
Cosmologists have found a way to double the accuracy of measuring distances to supernova explosions – one of their tried-and-true tools for studying the mysterious…
Batteries and similar devices accept, store, and release electricity on demand. Batteries use chemistry, in the form of chemical potential, to store energy, just like…
The first baby bison was born this morning at Fermilab, beginning a new season for the herd. Credit: Ryan Postel, Fermilab Fermilab is known for…
A map of the sky showing the density of galaxy clusters, galaxies, and matter in the universe over the part of the sky observed by…
An illustration depicting a topological surface state with an energy band gap (an energy range where electrons are forbidden) between the apices of the top…
Artist’s conception of polar vortices moving in ferroelectric material. These small groupings of atoms must be excited with high-frequency electric fields to move, but studying…
DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is using a sophisticated cooling system to keep qubits – the heart of quantum computers – cold enough for scientists…
NIF’s high-energy laser beams converge on a target at the center of the target chamber. Success in achieving fusion ignition would be a major step…