
For the run-up to the 2018 National Science Bowl® Finals April 26 to April 30, this is one in a series of profiles on previous NSB competitors.

Studying how to make and combine cutting-edge materials is leading to cheaper, more efficient, and more sensitive gaseous sensors.

Two modest neutrino experiments look to reveal big answers about how these fundamental particles interact with matter.

Sergei Nagaitsev is the director of the Fermilab Accelerator Complex user facility.

Scientists are researching fungi’s essential role in decomposition, particularly breaking down cell walls in wood.

Scientists are searching for the critical point of quark-gluon plasma, the substance that formed just after the Big Bang.

Machine learning and deep learning programs provide a helping hand to scientists analyzing images.

Graphene may revolutionize electronics. But first, researchers need to get its electrons under control.

To solve some of the world’s biggest scientific problems, you need some of the world’s biggest computers. The teams at the Department of Energy’s user

Chuck Black is the director of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials.