Scientists Use Machine Learning to Translate 'Hidden' Information that Reveals Chemistry in Action
New method allows on-the-fly analysis of how catalysts change during reactions, providing crucial information for improving performance.
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Nanoparticle Supersoap Creates ‘Bijel’ With Potential as Sculptable Fluid
A new two-dimensional film, made of polymers and nanoparticles and developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), can direct two different non-mixing liquids into a variety of exotic architectures.
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Big Data Boost for Brain Research
Researchers are using Argonne National Lab's vast arsenal of innovative technologies to map the intricacies of brain function at the deepest levels, and describing them in greater detail than ever before through advanced data analysis techniques.
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Artificial Intelligence Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10 Million Times Faster
SLAC and Stanford researchers demonstrate that brain-mimicking ‘neural networks’ can revolutionize the way astrophysicists analyze their most complex data, including extreme distortions in spacetime that are crucial for our understanding of the universe.
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Controlling Traffic on the Electron Highway: Researching Graphene
Graphene may revolutionize electronics. But first, researchers need to get its electrons under control.
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New Results Reveal High Tunability of 2-D Material
Berkeley Lab-led team also provides most precise band gap measurement yet for hotly studied monolayer moly sulfide.
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Launching a Supercomputer: How to Set Up Some of the World’s Fastest Computers
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 facilities get these powerful supercomputers up and running.
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Meet the Director: Chuck Black
Charles (Chuck) Black, the director of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, runs his facility with staff and scientists who embrace the mission of advancing the science of nanomaterials to impact society.
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Dark Energy Survey Reveals Most Accurate Measurement of Dark Matter Structure in the Universe
New result rivals precision of cosmic microwave background measurements, supports view that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the cosmos.
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'Perfect Liquid' Quark-Gluon Plasma is the Most Vortical Fluid
Swirling soup of matter's fundamental building blocks spins ten billion trillion times faster than the most powerful tornado, setting new record for "vorticity."
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No Assembly Required: Nanoparticles that Put Themselves Together
Using self-assembly, scientists are coaxing tiny particles into making new, customized materials.
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New Studies of Ancient Concrete Could Teach Us to Do as the Romans Did
Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley experiments show how natural chemistry strengthened ancient concrete.
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