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New Physics in a Copper-Iridium Compound 6 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
An unexpected magnetic behavior within the transition-metal compound Sr3CuIrO6 has been revealed by research at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Advanced Photon Source, results that m...
A Key Target for Diabetes Drugs 26 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
The three-dimensional atomic structure of the human glucagon receptor has been identified by an international team of researchers carrying out experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Sc...
Molten Metal Solidifies into a New Kind of Glass 25 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
When a molten material cools too quickly it may grow into orderly crystals, but if it cools too rapidly for the entire melt to crystallize, the remaining material ends up in a non-crystalline state kn...
Organic Polymers Show Sunny Potential 25 Jun 2013 | 04:00 am
A new version of solar cells created by laboratories at the Rice and Pennsylvania State universities, with an assist from two U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science x-ray light sources, could ope...
A New Family of Quasicrystals 24 Jun 2013 | 04:00 am
Just as fishing experts know that casting a line in the right spot hooks the big catch, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory used an algorithm they developed, and the high-b...
Cool Muscles: Storing Elastic Energy for Flight 12 Jun 2013 | 04:00 am
Studies by researchers utilizing high-brightness x-rays at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory provide important information about how flying species ...
A Further Understanding of Superconductivity 10 Jun 2013 | 04:00 am
A crucial ingredient of high-temperature superconductivity can be found in a class of materials that is entirely different than conventional superconductors. That discovery is the result of research b...
New Family of Tiny Crystals Glow Bright in LED Lights 7 Jun 2013 | 04:00 am
Minuscule crystals that glow different colors may be the missing ingredient for white light-emitting diode lighting that illuminates homes and offices as effectively as natural sunlight. So say resear...
How Serotonin Receptors Can Shape Drug Effects, from LSD to Migraine Medication 15 May 2013 | 04:00 am
New findings by researchers carrying out experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Advanced Photon Source help explain why some drugs that interact with two kinds of human serot...
X-rays Paint a Picture of Picasso's Pigments 30 Apr 2013 | 04:00 am
Art historians have long supposed that Pablo Picasso employed ordinary house paint, in place of conventional artists' paints, in some of his artwork. A recent collaborative effort between the Art Inst...
