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New Process Spins Nuclear Waste into Radioactive ‘Gold’

The United States has about 94,000 tonnes of nuclear waste in storage, though that’s a bit like calling all that gold in Fort Knox...

Heat-Defying Purple Fabric Reflects 88% Sunlight, Keeps Skin 14°F Cooler, Repels Water

The material is made of a metal-organic framework with zinc oxide nanoparticles. An international team of researchers has unveiled a purple fabric that reflects up...

ETH Engineer Develops Solar Collector That Turns Sunlight into Industrial Heat

Solar panels make electricity. This ETH prototype is designed to make something factories need just as much. Heat. An ETH Zurich engineer is developing a...

Plasma Atomization Creates Ultra-Pure Titanium Powder for Complex 3D-Printed Alloys

Titanium powder made through plasma atomization will support advanced manufacturing research at a major U.S. laboratory. A major U.S. applied research laboratory has placed its...

MIT Physicists Zapped a Quantum Crystal With Lasers – and Discovered Something Surprising

MIT physicists have uncovered a surprising split in the behavior of electrons inside a quantum material: two nearly identical electronic patterns rebuild themselves in...

240-MW Lead-Bismuth-Cooled Nuclear Reactor Fuel Facility Enters US Regulatory Phase

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has formally docketed a Regulatory Engagement Plan from First American Nuclear. The filing outlines pre-licensing interactions for a proposed...

Microchip Introduces Radiation-Tolerant Clock Generator For Spacecraft Timing Systems

CHANDLER, Ariz. - Microchip Technology Inc. has introduced the DSA504RT, a radiation-tolerant, six-output programmable clock generator designed to simplify timing architectures in spacecraft and...

At 3 Nanometers, Ordinary Titanium Dioxide Breaks Its Symmetry And Turns Ferroelectric

A material found in everyday products takes a surprising turn at tiny scales, gaining an electrical property that could reshape future chips. What happens when...

World-First 16MW Typhoon-Resistant Wind Platform Starts Powering Oil Rigs In China

The world’s largest tension-leg floating wind platform begins operations, marking a milestone in deep-sea offshore wind technology. China’s first tension-leg platform (TLP) floating wind farm...

Scientists Discover What Makes Hydrogen Go Quantum

The symmetry of vanadium’s crystal structure acts as a switch for hydrogen’s quantum behavior. Inside a vanadium crystal, hydrogen can travel in two very different...

Chemists Defy Decades-Old Rules With “Free Electron” Breakthrough

Free electrons offer chemists a new way to control reactions that conventional electron transfer rules would normally prevent. Inside a reaction flask, an electron can...

Ultrafast X-Rays Capture Chemistry Unfolding Atom By Atom

Using rapid X-ray flashes produced at the European XFEL, the researchers followed changes at specific atoms as the molecule released and redistributed the absorbed...

A fraction of world’s seawater could meet energy needs for generations

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are developing three separate technologies and processes that either make this “liquid...

New Semiconductor Device Turns Light Into a Directed Current

The light-controlled electron current could open new paths for sensing, telecommunications, and other advanced technologies. A pair of laser beams can now send electrons through...

A strange quantum effect dramatically boosts energy transfer

Electron and proton motion often work together in both living systems and engineered materials. The most familiar example is proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET), a...

Advancing next-gen AI with materials science innovation

The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath...