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New Insights into California Electricity Crisis May Help Prevent Future Crises

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 16, 2016 — Between 2000 and 2001, California experienced the biggest electricity crisis in the U.S. since World War II. Exactly how it happened, […]

Real Rocket Science: How Do Hydrogen Droplets Behave When Hydrogen-oxygen Aerosol Mixtures Burn?

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 16, 2016 — Modern rockets and their launch vehicles commonly rely on hydrogen-oxygen mixtures as propellant, but this combination is highly explosive. The Challenger […]

New Tool Could Help Investors Pick the Clean Energy Project Right For Them

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 2016 — In 2013, Serbia announced its goal of having 27 percent of the country's power be generated from renewable sources by 2020. […]

Seeing Atoms

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 2016 — Life in the nano lane is fast and just got faster in terms of knowledge of fundamental mechanisms working at the […]

Laboratory Breakthrough may Lead to improved X-ray Interferometers

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7, 2016 — Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute’s Swiss Light Source in Villigen, Switzerland, have developed an X-ray grating interferometry setup which does […]

Silicon Sees the Light: Tiny Lasers Enable Next-Gen Microprocessors to Run Faster, Less Power-Hungry

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 2, 2016 — A group of scientists from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; the University of California, Santa Barbara; Sandia National Laboratories […]

Calculating the Mechanics of a Rough Sphere

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 31, 2016 — The scientific community uses spheres for all sorts of things — artificial limbs, cars, molecular chemistry — but there’s always a little […]

Mapping neural networks to strengthen circadian rhythms

Washington, D.C., May 31, 2016 — If you’ve ever felt groggy the morning after traversing time zones, you can thank the temporary mismatch between your body’s 24-hour […]

Tiny Probe Could Produce Big Improvements in Batteries and Fuel Cells

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 31, 2016 — A team of American and Chinese researchers has developed a new tool that could aid in the quest for better batteries […]