Simulations show how fractal structures of increasing complexity dissipate energy from shockwaves. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory Additively manufactured fractal structures with closely spaced voids…
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Scientists developed a smart window device for concurrently harvesting and regulating solar energy. Credit: Peter Allen / University of Chicago A customizable smart window harnesses…
In a study at SLAC and Stanford, theorists predicted that catalyst nanoparticles made of palladium and platinum (left) would become rounder during certain chemical reactions…
Berkeley Lab researchers are part of an international team that reports a high-sensitivity measurement by underground CUPID-Mo experiment. Nuclear physicists affiliated with the U.S. Department…
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, demonstrated a novel fabrication method for affordable gas membranes that can remove carbon…
This artist’s concept shows a hypothetical planet covered in water around the binary star system of Kepler-35A and B. The composition of such water worlds…
[embedded content]The making of mendelevium-244: In this video, Berkeley Lab project scientist Jennifer Pore describes how scientists working at Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron created and…
Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory One of nature’s most important chemical reactions is now being captured in a breakthrough “molecular movie.” Using a unique…
A precision measurement of helium and hydrogen mirror isotopes reveals new questions in understanding of nuclear structure. Credit: DOE’s Jefferson Lab A precision measurement of…
To study the powerful shock waves in supernova remnants, Frederico Fiuza and colleagues created similar plasma shock waves in the lab. Here, computer simulations reveal…
States that resemble sleep-like cycles in simulated neural networks quell the instability that comes with uninterrupted self-learning in artificial analogs of brains. No one can…
Lipitoids, which self-assemble with DNA and RNA, can serve as cellular delivery systems for antiviral therapies that could prevent COVID-19 and other coronavirus infections. Credit:…
An international collaboration of researchers has probed the high-pressure behavior of iron, which is found in the core of rocky planets like Earth. Iron is…
Image showing spiraling magnetic field fluctuations at the edge of the NSTX tokamak. Credit: Physics of Plasmas. Composition by Elle Starkman/Office of Communications Blobs can…
Scientists Have Found a Way to Shuffle Atoms to Dramatically Improve Drugs’ Effectiveness and Safety
Using the single-crystal diffractometer TOPAZ, Oak Ridge National Laboratory confirmed the exact position of deuterium atoms from selective deuteration of benzene molecules. Credit: Jill Hemman/Oak…
Solar wind. Credit: NASA As the Earth orbits the sun, it plows through a stream of fast-moving particles that can interfere with satellites and global…
ITER Fusion Reactor Tokamak Assembly Begins – World’s Largest International Scientific Collaboration
The 1250 ton cyrostat base is positioned over the ITER tokamak pit for installation. This base is the heaviest lift of tokamak assembly. Credit: ITER…
Forests are becoming shorter and younger because of a range of factors, a new study says. PNNL-led researchers: Conditions that started decades ago are changing…
A new computer vision algorithm for identifying particles in a lithium-ion battery cathode has helped researchers track the cathode’s degradation over time. Credit: Image courtesy…
Understanding nature’s process could inform the next generation of artificial photosynthetic systems that produce clean and renewable energy from sunlight and water. Photosystem II is…