April 24, 2024
Team Discovers Fundamentally New Way to Detect Radiation Involving Cheap Ceramics
The work could lead to plethora of new applications, including better detectors for nuclear materials at ports.
April 24, 2024
Quantum Crystal of Frozen Electrons—the Wigner Crystal—is Visualized for the First Time
Researchers have unveiled the elusive Wigner crystal--formed purely from the repulsive nature of electrons—with scanning tunneling microscopy.
April 23, 2024
Better Battery Manufacturing: Robotic Lab Vets New Reaction Design Strategy
Researchers partnered with Samsung Semiconductor’s Advanced Materials Lab to test if their new recipes produced the materials with fewer impurities.
April 23, 2024
UW–Madison Researchers Develop Better Way to Make Painkiller from Trees
Scientists have developed a cost-effective and environmentally sustainable way to make a popular pain reliever from plants instead of petroleum.
April 22, 2024
Discovery Points Path to Flash-Like Memory for Storing Qubits
Storing qubits in topologically protected states could potentially reduce decoherence-related errors that have plagued quantum computing.
April 22, 2024
First Results from DESI Make the Most Precise Measurement of Our Expanding Universe
UC Santa Cruz researchers hold crucial roles in Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument collaboration.
April 22, 2024
A Focused Approach Can Help Untangle Messy Quantum Scrambling Problems
The technique focuses on a single feature that describes how various amounts of energy can be held by different configurations in a quantum system.
April 19, 2024
To Capture Methane Emissions, Scientists Create Nanoshell Catalysts
A University at Buffalo-led team is developing new catalysts that aim to turn climate-warming methane emissions into useful commercial products.
April 19, 2024
New Findings Reveal Clearer Picture of Expanding Universe
The DESI collaboration consists of 900+ researchers from around the world, engaged in a multiyear experiment to increase understanding of the cosmos.
April 19, 2024
A New Estimate of U.S. Soil Organic Carbon to Improve Earth System Models
Environmental scientists combined field-level data with machine-learning techniques to estimate soil organic carbon at the U.S. continental scale.