Proteins Suggest a Path to Reduce Drug Resistance in a Form of Cancer
Scientists have learned more about how drug resistance develops in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and how the process might be slowed, thanks to a study of proteins and other molecular players.
Reaping agricultural emissions solutions
ORNL climate modeling expertise contributed to a project that assessed global emissions of ammonia from croplands now and in a warmer future, while also identifying solutions tuned to local growing conditions.
Beyond Ice Cubes: Researchers Bring Complex Shapes to Sea-Ice Dynamics Models
Researchers model sea ice dynamics and thermodynamics to understand its role in global climate.
Deglaciated Soils: Microorganisms Emerging From Melting Glaciers
As global temperatures continue to rise, glaciers are melting, and soils with communities of microorganisms are now exposed. Researchers are studying the microorganisms in these soils to determine how they influence carbon flux and climate change.
Bringing supercomputers and experiments together to accelerate discoveries
Through its Nexus effort, Argonne National Laboratory is working to closely integrate supercomputers with experiments to help researchers keep pace with the ever-increasing influx of scientific data.
Antihydrogen Falls Downward!
Scientists have indirect evidence that antimatter falls the same way as matter.
Rising Sea Levels Could Lead to More Methane Emitted from Wetlands
A Bay Area wetlands ecosystem that was expected to serve as a carbon sink is emitting surprisingly high levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Argonne scientists help scale up nanomaterials for sustainable manufacturing
Scientists using Argonne's Advanced Photon Source have developed a multipurpose nanomaterial to aid in sustainable manufacturing.
Revealed: Quantum Entanglement among Quarks
Collisions of high energy particles produce "jets" of quarks, anti-quarks, or gluons. The quarks can't be directly detected, but simulations indicate that the jets modify the quantum vacuum and that the produced quarks retain entanglement.
Islands That Move Together, Disrupt Together
Magnetic plasma confinement in tokamaks is subject to effects from instabilities in the hot plasma.
Researchers add a 'twist' to classical material design
Researchers with the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University and the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) grew a twisted multilayer crystal structure for the first time and measured the structure's key properties.
Hacking DNA to Make Next-Gen Materials
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University, and Stony Brook University have developed a universal method for producing a wide variety of designed metallic and semiconductor 3D nanostructures--the potential base materials for next-generation semiconductor devices, neuromorphic computing, and advanced energy applications.
Gravity Helps Show Strong Force Strength in the Proton
New research conducted by nuclear physicists at Jefferson Lab is using a method that connects theories of gravitation to interactions among the smallest particles of matter.
Liquid lithium on the walls of a fusion device helps the plasma within maintain a hot edge
Emerging research from the Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) suggests it may be easier to use fusion as a power source if liquid lithium is applied to the internal walls of the device housing the plasma.
Corning uses neutrons to reveal how 'atomic rings' help predict glass performance
Conducting neutron scattering experiments at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL and Corning scientists discovered that as the number of smaller, less-stable atomic rings in a glass increases, the instability, or liquid fragility, of the glass also increases.
Long-Lived State in Radioactive Sodium Discovered at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Sometimes a single atomic nucleus can take many shapes, shifting between spherical and deformed states.
Scientists Advance Affordable, Sustainable Solution for Flat-Panel Displays and Wearable Tech
Scientists have developed "supramolecular ink," a new 3D-printable OLED (organic light-emitting diode) material made of inexpensive, Earth-abundant elements instead of costly scarce metals.
Scientists Advance Affordable, Sustainable Solution for Flat-Panel Displays and Wearable Tech
Scientists have developed "supramolecular ink," a new 3D-printable OLED (organic light-emitting diode) material made of inexpensive, Earth-abundant elements instead of costly scarce metals.
Scientists Make COVID Receptor Protein in Mouse Cells
A team of scientists has demonstrated a way to produce large quantities of the receptor that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, binds to on the surface of human cells.
Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe through Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Studies of neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) could shed light on the mass of neutrinos and whether they exist as both matter and antimatter.
Armor for steel
Researchers demonstrated that stainless steel and other metal alloys coated with hexagonal boron nitride, or hBN, exhibit non-stick or low-friction qualities along with improved long-term protection against harsh corrosion and high-temperature oxidation in air.
Seeing the Shape of Atomic Nuclei
Scientists have developed a new way to study the shapes of atomic nuclei and their building blocks by modeling the production of particles produced in high-energy electron-nucleus collisions in the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC).
Argonne, Sandia scientists create qubits using precision tools of nanotechnology
With support from the Q-NEXT quantum center, scientists leverage nanoscale-research facilities to conduct pioneering precision studies of qubits in silicon carbide, leading to a better understanding of quantum devices and higher performance.
Researchers release solar power data software to increase clean energy generation
The software tool sorts through messy data to reveal what's really going on with solar panels on cloudy and sunny days.
Insect populations flourish in the restored habitats of solar energy facilities
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory studied how insect communities responded to newly established habitats on solar energy facilities built on retired agricultural land. At the end of five years, all habitat and biodiversity metrics increased.