12.18.15From the Labs
Researchers with Berkeley Lab used a real-time numerical algorithm to study electron movement, to understand how long a particle stays excited, and whether there is energy backflow from hot carrier – a single particle excitation - to plasmon – a cloud of electrons. Read More
12.18.15Announcement
The United States and the European physics laboratory have formally agreed to partner on continued LHC research, upcoming neutrino research and a future collider. Read More
12.18.15Profile
Eric Isaacs, a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) recipient, probes how metal nanoparticles supercharge sunlight's water-splitting feat. Read More
12.17.15From the Labs
Climate researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are developing complex equations that mathematically describe how Earth's various systems, processes and cycles work, interact and react in different conditions. Read More
12.17.15From the Labs
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have demonstrated that diamonds may hold the key to the future for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies. Read More
12.17.15From the Labs
An ultra-high-resolution technique used for the first time to study polymer fibers that trap uranium in seawater may cause researchers to rethink the best methods to harvest this potential fuel for nuclear reactors. Read More
12.15.15User Facility
Ryan Tappero, the lead scientist at the X-Ray Fluorescence Microprobe (XFM) beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), and Jason Unrine, an assistant professor in the University of Kentucky's Department of Plant and Soil Sciences studied the ecotoxicity of nanomaterials that are used in commercial products at the Hard X-ray Nanoprobe beamline. Read More
12.15.15From the Labs
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and other U.S. institutions joined colleagues from around the world at the celebration for the first plasma of the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator at the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald, Germany. Read More
12.15.15From the Labs
PNNL’s public release of more than 35,000 files with detailed information about important microbes can help scientists study the entire "tree of life." Read More
12.14.15User Facility
An international team led by Princeton University scientists has discovered an elusive massless particle first theorized 85 years ago: the Weyl fermion. Read More