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.
The Energy Department's 17 National Labs are world-class scientific facilities devoted to conducting high impact, breakthrough research in the basic and applied sciences. The "Lab Breakthroughs" video series highlights cutting-edge innovations developed by scientists at the labs.
Breakthrough technologies developed at the National Labs are saving lives, changing the way doctors diagnose diseases and making fusion power viable. If you look hard enough in your daily life, you'll likely discover at least one technology that was developed at the National Labs.
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Learn how an alloy developed by the National Energy Technology Lab is moving markets and saving lives.
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.
