An illustration shows polarons — fleeting distortions in a material’s atomic lattice –in a promising next-generation energy material, lead hybrid perovskite. Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National…
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A photoconductive switch made from a synthetic, chemical vapor deposition diamond under test. Credit: LLNL When it comes to the semiconductor industry, silicon has reigned…
An image of the debris left over after the creation of a quark-gluon plasma in the collision of two nuclei at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Credit:…
PPPL physicist Gerrit Kramer with conceptual image of SPARC fusion reactor. Credit: Collage and Kramer photo by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. SPARC image courtesy…
Graphic depiction of energy flows between the Earth’s surface and the atmosphere. Credit: Image courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM)…
In the fight against COVID-19, scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley are developing an N95 quality-assessment test; a rechargeable, reusable, anti-COVID N95 mask; and…
An illustration of the 2D boron nitride substrate with imperfections that host tiny nickel clusters. The catalyst aids the chemical reaction that removes hydrogen from…
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It has a broad physics program ranging from studying the…
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is designing a neutronic research engine to evaluate new materials and designs for advanced vehicles using the facilities at the Spallation…
This rotating image shows the detailed structure of a “spike” from a coronavirus that causes cold symptoms – a milder relative of the virus that…
Collision of two neutron stars showing the electromagnetic and gravitational-wave emissions during the merger process. The combined interpretation of multiple messengers allows astrophysicists to understand…
A viable quantum internet — a network in which information stored in qubits is shared over long distances through entanglement — would transform the fields…
Katherine Shield (from left), Dahlia An, Tyler Bailey at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Tuesday, November 17, 2020, in Berkeley, California. Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab…
Researcher Melissa Tumen-Velasquez works with microbes to understand how the organisms consume plastics and break them into chemical components that can be used to make…
MIT grad student Chiara Salemi and Professor Lindley Winslow use the ABRACADABRA instrument to reveal insights into dark matter. On the first floor of MIT’s…
Argonne and SLAC will develop artificial photosynthesis methods to enable direct air capture of CO2 while expanding sources of energy through the conversion of CO2…
The cell membrane is the cell’s first line of defense against the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. The surface of the virus is covered with spike…
Scientists study neutrinos produced by nuclear reactors, radioactive decay, particle accelerators, the sun, the Earth, and the cosmos. Credit: Artwork by Sandbox Studio, Chicago with…
Artistic interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog can help fill in gaps of knowledge about the microbes that play key roles…
Light moves through a fiber and stimulates the metal electrons in nanotip into collective oscillations called surface plasmons, assisting electrons to leave the tip. This…