Highly Efficient Broadband Terahertz Radiation from Metamaterials
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have demonstrated broadband terahertz (THz) wave generation using metamaterials. The discovery may help develop noninvasive imaging and sensing, and make possible THz-speed information communication, processing and storage.
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Welcome to the DarkSide: Project Aims to Find Particles of Dark Matter
In a laboratory under a mountain 80 miles east of Rome this fall, a Princeton-led international team switched on a new experiment aimed at finding a mysterious substance that makes up a quarter of the universe but has never been seen.
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Hugging Hemes Help Electrons Hop
Novel biological mechanism relays electrons in proteins in mineral-breathing bacteria important for energy-related research.
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Berkeley Lab and Cal State Long Beach Researchers Launch ‘Kelp Watch’ to Determine Extent of Fukushima Contamination
Researchers from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have launched “Kelp Watch 2014,” a scientific campaign designed to determine the extent of radioactive contamination of the state’s kelp forest from Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.
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Cobalt Catalysts Allow Researchers to Duplicate the Complicated Steps of Photosynthesis
In a new study, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have found a new, more efficient way to link a less expensive synthetic cobalt-containing catalyst to an organic light-sensitive molecule, called a chromophore.
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Battery Development May Extend Range of Electric Cars
New anode quadruples life of lithium-sulfur battery, could also help store renewable energy more cheaply.
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Heat Lost … Opportunity Found
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Lab develop a comprehensive phonon “map” for engineering new thermoelectric devices.
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Batteries as They Are Meant to be Seen
In the search for long-lasting, inexpensive rechargeable batteries, researchers develop more realistic methods to study the materials in action.
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Chemist Direct Recommends Daily Intake of the ‘Sunshine’ Vitamin D for Essential Body Functions, Calcium Absorption and Pain Reduction for Certain Chronic Ills
A collaboration of international researchers with Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light ALS, a DOE national user facility, demonstrated that vitamin D deficiency also reduces bone quality.
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Surprising Finds in a Rare Plant’s Mitochondrial Genome
Rare and ancient plant gobbles up entire mitochondria from other plants and holds onto them for eons.
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A Micro-Muscular Break Through
Berkeley Lab researchers make a powerful new microscale torsional muscle/motor from vanadium dioxide.
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X-ray Laser Maps Important Drug Target
New technology allows faster, more accurate imaging of hard-to-study membrane proteins.
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