Small packages, big rewards

November 13, 2023

Experts believe that nuclear power – along with renewable energy sources like wind and solar – can help mitigate the… Read More

Mapping DNA’s folds

November 1, 2023

For decades, scientists have probed how human DNA that would stretch more than 2 meters if unspooled from a cell… Read More

Now streaming: nuclear physics

October 18, 2023

Accelerator facilities that allow nuclear physicists to probe the inner workings of atoms and their nuclei require a costly high-wire… Read More

Up in smoke

October 3, 2023

As wildfires blaze around the globe, the particles and chemicals in smoke can affect distant climate patterns. Using simulations, climate… Read More

Scaling down

September 12, 2023

As researchers develop new materials for spacecraft, aircraft and earthbound uses, they need to generate images from experimental results quickly… Read More

Not-so-plain sight

June 21, 2023

Scientists and companies invest years and fortunes searching for new medicines. Many discoveries might already exist but remain hidden in… Read More

Toil and trouble

May 25, 2023

Bubbles could block a promising technology that would separate carbon dioxide from industrial emissions, capturing the greenhouse gas before it… Read More

The storms ahead

April 25, 2023

In a mere 18-month span, the Texas Cold Snap left millions of people without power, the Pacific Northwest heat wave… Read More

Quantum evolution

April 13, 2023

Bert de Jong leads the Applied Computing for Scientific Discovery Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He also heads the… Read More

Cosmic coding

March 21, 2023

Two new Department of Energy-sponsored telescopes, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, will map… Read More