12.14.16University Research
Florida State University research scientist Rachel Wilson and University of Oregon graduate student Anya Hopple are the first authors on a new study that details experiments suggesting that carbon stored in peat — a highly organic material found in marsh or damp regions — may not succumb to the Earth’s warming as easily as scientists thought.
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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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12.13.16User Facility
Using the MPAS global variable-resolution atmospheric model, PNNL researchers efficiently simulated how local Asian convection affects the southern hemisphere jet stream thousands of miles away via upscale effects, an important part of understanding weather and climate.
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12.13.16Science HighlightResearchers demonstrate a new technique for producing polarized positrons that could improve manufacturing and lead to new discoveries.
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12.13.16Science HighlightA new method detects residual contaminants in ultra-pure helium gas, critical to nuclear physics experiments.
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12.13.16University Research
University of Pennsylvania researchers have extended their pioneering process to enable efficient recycling of two rare-earth metals, neodymium and dysprosium, which are found in many high-tech devices’ magnets.
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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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12.12.16Science Highlight
New searches for sterile neutrinos, hypothetical particles that do not directly “talk to” any particles in the Standard Model, significantly narrow the remaining regions where these particles may be hiding.
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12.12.16User Facility
Neutron scattering studies of a rare earth metal oxide have identified fundamental pieces to the quantum spin liquid puzzle, revealing a better understanding of how and why the magnetic moments within these materials exhibit exotic behaviors such as failing to freeze into an ordered arrangement even near absolute zero temperatures.
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12.12.16University Research
A UCLA research team has made a major advance toward developing oxide supercapacitors, energy-storage devices that would combine the longevity of a battery with the fast-charge times and high-power property of capacitors.
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