The Lab Breakthroughs series brings together video produced by each of the National Labs about their innovations and discoveries, and a Q&A with a project researcher about how they affect Americans. Here you can view the latest Q&As weekly, or view the full playlist on our YouTube page.
If we find an Earth-bound asteroid, what do we do? This Los Alamos research helps figure out how to avoid annihilation.
This Breakthroughs Q&A asks Idaho National Laboratory researcher John Garnier about how the carbon fibers he and George Griffith invented could impact transportation, energy, defense, environment and manufacturing.
Princeton Plasma has extended its fusion research to detecting and identifying sources of dangerous radiation that might signal a potential nuclear threat, like a “dirty bomb.”
Argonne nanoscientists are capable of building materials atom by atom and controlling their advanced functions to repair biological systems at unprecedentedly small scales.
An accelerator team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory is working with an international consortium to make fusion power technology commercially viable by 2050.
If you look hard enough in your daily life, you'll likely discover at least one technology that was developed at one of the 17 National Labs.
The products of scientific research are how we define our modern life and the National Labs play an important role, as evidenced by these innovations.