Study Sheds New Light on Why Batteries Go Bad
Rapid charging and draining doesn’t damage lithium ion electrode as much as thought.
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Buckyballs and Diamondoids Join Forces in Tiny Electronic Gadget
Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory craft two exotic forms of carbon into a molecule for steering electron flow.
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Sending Electricity, Light Along Super-thin Wire May Open Door to Speed-of-light Computing
Optical and material scientists at the University of Rochester and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich find a new combination of materials can efficiently guide electricity and light along the same tiny wire.
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The Power of Hidden Patterns
Scientists at MIT find interfaces within materials can be patterned as a means of controlling the properties of composites.
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A Collaboration of Researchers Using Argonne Lab’s Advanced Photon Source Explain Why Some Liquids are ‘Fragile’ and Others are ‘Strong’
‘Fragility’ provides a clue to the mystery of what happens when a liquid turns into a glass.
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Do We Live in a 2-D Hologram?
New Fermilab experiment will test the nature of the universe.
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X-ray Laser Probes Tiny Quantum Tornadoes in Superfluid Droplets
SLAC experiment reveals mysterious order in liquid helium.
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NMR Using Earth’s Magnetic Field
Berkeley Lab researchers demonstrate ultra low-field nuclear magnetic resonance with an optical magnetometer.
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Dark Energy Survey kicks Off Second Season Cataloging the Wonders of Deep Space
With its second year under way, the DES team posts highlights and prepares to release images from its first year.
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Mysteries of Space Dust Revealed
Berkeley Lab researchers help give a first look at suspected extra-solar particles.
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Getting Insights Into a New Class of Semiconducting Materials
A new paper by University of Notre Dame researchers describes their investigations of the fundamental optical properties of a new class of semiconducting materials known as organic-inorganic “hybrid” perovskites.
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Open Access to the Universe
A small team of astrophysicists and computer scientists have created some of the highest-resolution snapshots yet of a cyber version of our own cosmos.
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