Scientists Fine-Tune System to Create ‘Syngas’ from CO2
Scientists have developed a new recipe for creating synthesis gas mixtures, or syngas, that involves adding a pinch of copper atoms sprinkled atop a gold surface.
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X-ray Footprinting Solves Mystery of Metal-Breathing Protein
A team of scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered the details of an unconventional coupling between a bacterial protein and a mineral that allows the bacterium to breathe when oxygen is not available.
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PPPL Physicists Essential to New Campaign on World’s Most Powerful Stellarator
Physicists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are providing critical expertise for the first full campaign of the world’s largest and most powerful stellarator, a magnetic confinement fusion experiment, the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) in Germany.
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Scientists Bring Visual ‘Magic’ to Light
Scientists from mixed reality technology company Magic Leap Inc., working with researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have developed new, versatile ways to control and enhance the light-bending properties of synthetic optical nanostructures.
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Artificial Intelligence Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10 Million Times Faster
SLAC and Stanford researchers demonstrate that brain-mimicking ‘neural networks’ can revolutionize the way astrophysicists analyze their most complex data, including extreme distortions in spacetime that are crucial for our understanding of the universe.
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Discovery Suggests New Significance of Unheralded Chemical Reactions
A type of chemical reaction originally thought to be of little practical importance when hypothesized nearly a century ago may actually constitute major chemical pathways in the interaction of different gases, potentially offering new insights into engine dynamics and even the atmospheres of different planets.
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Scientists Developing Innovative Techniques for High-Resolution Analysis of Hybrid Materials
In an effort to better study a promising class of materials that could energize the solar cell industry, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new method of analyzing the material’s molecular-scale structure.
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Ames Laboratory Scientists Move Graphene Closer to Transistor Applications
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory were able to successfully manipulate the electronic structure of graphene, which may enable the fabrication of graphene transistors-- faster and more reliable than existing silicon-based transistors.
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New X-Ray Laser Technique Reveals Magnetic Skyrmion Fluctuations
A new way of operating the powerful X-ray laser at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has enabled researchers to detect and measure fluctuations in magnetic structures being considered for new data storage and computing technologies.
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The Outsized Role of Soil Microbes
Three scientists have proposed a new approach to better understand the role of soil organic matter in long-term carbon storage and its response to changes in global climate and atmospheric chemistry.
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Controlling Traffic on the Electron Highway: Researching Graphene
Graphene may revolutionize electronics. But first, researchers need to get its electrons under control.
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SLAC’s Blair Ratcliff Wins American Physical Society’s Instrumentation Award
The emeritus physicist was honored for the development of novel detectors that have greatly advanced experiments in particle physics, especially BABAR, which looked into the matter-antimatter imbalance of the universe.
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