
New Diagnostic Tool ALPACA Could Boost Fusion Power Output
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have completed the construction of a new plasma measurement instrument called ALPACA.
Apr 30, 2024
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have completed the construction of a new plasma measurement instrument called ALPACA.
Apr 30, 2024

After two decades of work, scientists and engineers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and their collaborators are celebrating the completion of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera.
Apr 3, 2024

A commonplace chemical used in water treatment facilities has been repurposed for large-scale energy storage in a new battery design by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Mar 25, 2024

Researchers from Ames National Laboratory have made a groundbreaking discovery by identifying miassite, a mineral found in nature, as the first unconventional superconductor with a naturally occurring chemical composition.
Mar 14, 2024

Scientists are harnessing the power of fungi to create innovative, cruelty-free food products that are both healthy for consumers and environmentally friendly.
Mar 14, 2024

The way mass is distributed in a proton is a fundamental puzzle in nuclear and particle physics.
Feb 14, 2024

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Columbia University have developed a way to convert carbon dioxide (CO2)…
Jan 15, 2024

On Nov. 28, The U.S. Department of Energy announced results of the most comprehensive analysis to date quantifying the domestic lithium resources in southern California’s Salton Sea region.
Dec 12, 2023

Solar and wind power may be free, renewable fuels, but they also depend on natural processes that humans cannot control.
Dec 12, 2023

The elements above iron on the periodic table are thought to be created in cataclysmic explosions like the merger of two neutron stars or in rare classes of supernovae.
Dec 8, 2023

Working on the nanoscale gives researchers a lot of insight and control when fabricating and characterizing materials.
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The humble neutrino, an elusive subatomic particle that passes effortlessly through normal matter, plays an outsized role among the particles that comprise our universe.
Sep 7, 2023

Scientists for the first time have witnessed pieces of metal crack, then fuse back together without any human intervention, overturning fundamental scientific theories in the process.
Jul 19, 2023

Led by Kelly Chipps of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists working in the lab have produced a signature nuclear reaction that occurs on the surface of a neutron star gobbling mass from a companion star.
May 24, 2023