12.22.16From the Labs
In a unique pairing of biology and neutron science, researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have gained new insights into aquatic biochemistry using the otoliths of the lake sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens.
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12.21.16From the Labs
Lee Bernstein will lead the renewed Nuclear Data Group to solve common problems for a broad group of stakeholders in the nuclear energy, security, and medical fields at DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
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12.21.16From the Labs
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have found a way to create alkali metal hydrides without the use of solvents or catalysts.
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12.19.16From the Labs
Research conducted by scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), UC Merced, the U.S. Geological Survey, UC Berkeley, and the University of Colorado at Boulder shows some subalpine trees may have trouble gaining a foothold above the tree line.
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12.16.16From the Labs
A multi-institution team of scientists used the transmission electron microscope at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials to characterize new platinum-based catalysts - catalysts designed with the least amount of platinum and the most stable operation over time – to improve fuel cell efficiency.
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12.16.16From the Labs
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), in collaboration with researchers in South Korea and Germany, have developed a theoretical framework for improving the stability and intensity of particle accelerator beams.
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12.14.16From the Labs
A set of new laser systems and proposed upgrades at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will propel long-term plans for a more compact and affordable ultrahigh-energy particle collider.
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12.13.16From the Labs
Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory looked at quasicrystals – materials with geometrically organized, but never repeating atomic structures – and unexpectedly found redistribution of energy occurs as a chain reaction would in the forked branches of a lightning strike.
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12.12.16From the Labs
Dark Energy Survey (DES) scientists recently reported the discovery of a potential dwarf planet located 92 times farther from the sun than the Earth is, more than twice as distant as Pluto. The new dwarf planet was discovered using the Dark Energy Camera, a scientific instrument built at Fermilab to probe the mystery of dark energy.
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12.09.16From the Labs
Physicists Masaaki Yamada of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Ellen Zweibel of the University of Wisconsin-Madison have provided a major perspective on four key problems in magnetic reconnection that triggers explosive phenomena throughout the universe.
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