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New studies identify key molecular characteristics to potentially separate rare earth metals cleanly and efficiently with light.

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Precise positioning of oxygens could help engineer faster, more efficient energy-relevant chemical transformations.

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Magnetic reconnection causes space storms that can damage satellites and disrupt the grid. While it’s a common process in the universe, plasma physics researchers don’t fully understand why it occurs so abruptly and quickly. New research is supporting a theory that may hold the key.

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Scientists unlock mystery that could help reduce emissions of fine particles from combustion engines and other sources.

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $218 million in funding for 85 research awards in the important emerging field of Quantum Information Science (QIS).

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MSU scientists have a new proof of concept for a biofuel production platform that uses two species of marine algae and soil fungi. It lowers cultivation and harvesting costs and increases productivity, factors that currently hold back biofuels from being widely adopted.

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Scientists improve our understanding of the relationship between fundamental forces by re-creating the earliest moments of the universe.

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Water molecules line up tiny particles to attach and form minerals; understanding how this happens impacts energy extraction and storage along with waste disposal.

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First direct measurement show how heavy particles containing a charm quark get caught up in the flow of early universe particle soup.

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New detector enables electron microscope imaging at record-breaking resolution.

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New method can make films of atomically thin carbon that are over a foot long.

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U.S. and Korean scientists show how to find and use beneficial 3-D field perturbations to stabilize dangerous edge-localized modes in plasma.

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A new approach to atom probe tomography promises more precise and accurate measurements vital to semiconductors used in computers, lasers, detectors, and more.

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Scientists can now measure 3-D structures of tiny particles with properties that hold promise for advanced sensors and diagnostics.

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Particle flow patterns suggest even small-scale collisions create drops of early universe quark-gluon plasma.

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Scientists uncover a way to control terahertz radiation using tiny engineered particles in a magnetic field, potentially opening the doors for better medical and environmental sensors.

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Efficient generation of photon pairs from modified carbon nanotubes shows path to new types of light sources.

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Laboratory automation applied to complex radiochemical isolation of astatine-211 from cyclotron-bombarded targets.

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Comparing new prediction to measurements of muons’ precession could potentially help scientists discover new subatomic particles.

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One of the world’s most powerful x-ray machines offers scientists studying insects a unique resource to see inside of them. Using the Advanced Photon Source, researchers can watch and record how insects’ internal mechanisms work in real-time.