Delivering more bang for your buck is one thing but is renewable energy ready to face off with fossil fuels? With falling investment costs and renewable power capacity hitting a record high last year, a new UN report is optimistic about its prospects.
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A team of engineers has developed a new way of 3D-printing metals that could improve on existing, laser-on-powder based methods. It relies on using semi-solid metals that are solid at rest, but can flow when force is applied, making it possible to move through the nozzle of a printer.
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About 10,000 reels of film recording the 210 above-ground US nuclear tests are the focus of a project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) that has spent the past five years transferring the decomposing images to digital format.
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It's one of the basic facts of science: Heat something and it expands. But a team of scientists from LLNL have gone counterintuitive and invented a 3D-printed material that shrinks when heated.
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Scientists have come up with a method that they are hailing as a game-changer for forensics, using analysis of hair samples to detect unique patterns of proteins that can identify humans up to 250 years after being left behind.
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Scientists at LLNL have developed a material that begins to bridge the gap between breathable and protective military clothing, using carbon nanotubes to actively block contaminants while still allowing water vapor to escape.
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Global cloud patterns have changed since the 1980s, and scientists have found these shifts are consistent with predictions from climate model simulations that take into account human influences. The cloud changes are likely to have a further warming effect on the planet.
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Four new elements recently added to the periodic table have finally been given names suitable to their discovery and scientific field of relevance. Now the final decision as to whether these names become permanent has been opened to pubic comment.
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LLNL is set to take receipt of a brain-inspired supercomputing platform developed by IBM Research. The first-of-a-kind system is can process the equivalent of 16 million neurons and 4 billion synapses while consuming just 2.5 watts of power.
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Time to re-write the textbooks. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has confirmed the existence of four new elements with the atomic numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118.
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