'Perfect Liquid' Quark-Gluon Plasma is the Most Vortical Fluid
Swirling soup of matter's fundamental building blocks spins ten billion trillion times faster than the most powerful tornado, setting new record for "vorticity."
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A Semiconductor That Can Beat the Heat
A team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) discovered these exotic traits in a class of materials known as halide perovskites, which are also considered promising candidates for next-generation solar panels, nanoscale lasers, electronic cooling, and electronic displays.
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Scientists Watch ‘Artificial Atoms’ Assemble into Perfect Lattices with Many Uses
Scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have made the first observation of these nanocrystals rapidly forming superlattices while they are themselves still growing.
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Lights! Action! Photo-Activated Catalyst Grabs CO2 to Make Ingredients for Fuel
An international research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a light-activated material that can chemically convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide without generating unwanted byproducts.
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Critical Materials Institute Manufactures Magnets Entirely from U.S.-Sourced Rare Earths
The ability to produce rare-earth magnets domestically could provide positive support to American manufacturing and security interests.
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Argonne Goes Deep to Crack Cancer Code
Rick Stevens, an Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences at Argonne National Lab, is helping to develop the CANDLE computer architecture on the patient level which is meant to help guide drug treatment choices for tumors based on a much wider assortment of data than currently used.
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INL Research Leads to New Discovery on Key Nuclear Fuel
Discoveries from a collaborative project involving researchers at Idaho National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Aix-Marseille University in France have increased our understanding of the thermal and magnetic properties of uranium dioxide, a key component of fuel for nuclear power plants.
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EMSL Celebrates 20 Years of Scientific Achievement
Scientists, community leaders and others will gather Aug. 3-4 to celebrate the achievements of the first 20 years of EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility located at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash.
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Atomic Movies May Help Explain Why Perovskite Solar Cells Are More Efficient
Experiments with a powerful “electron camera” at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered that light whirls atoms around in perovskites, potentially explaining the high efficiency of these next-generation solar cell materials and providing clues for making better ones.
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Neutrons Peer into a Running Engine
Researchers used neutrons to probe a running engine at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source, giving them the opportunity to test an aluminum-cerium alloy under operating conditions.
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Strange Electrons Break the Crystal Symmetry of High-Temperature Superconductors
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Yale University have discovered spontaneous voltage perpendicular to applied current that may help unravel the mystery of high-temperature superconductors.
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Scientist Profile: Ann Fridlind Stays Grounded While Studying the Clouds
Ann Fridlind is an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA GISS) in Manhattan and is helping to develop the next generation of atmospheric models.
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