Predicted to be 20 to 30 percent more efficient that current technology The fridge is the most common of common household appliances. Despite improvements in efficiency over the years, they... Read more
Not Quite Yet, but in the Journal “Physics of Plasmas,” Researchers from National Ignition Facility Show Just How Close We’ve Come The dream of igniting a self-sustained fu... Read more
The new material has the highest oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity in alkaline media of any non-precious metal catalyst developed to date. Economical non-precious-metal catalyst capit... Read more
LANL’s quantum cryptography team successfully completed the first-ever demonstration of securing control data for electric grids using quantum cryptography. Recently a Los Alamos Natio... Read more
The research team recently demonstrated the first use of a heat pipe to cool a small nuclear reactor and power a Stirling engine Joint DOE and NASA team demonstrates simple, robust fission r... Read more
Cosmic-ray tomography Musing on muons AMERICANS may no longer fret about being showered with nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, but the idea that an atom bomb might enter their country in a... Read more
A new method for “recycling” hydrogen-containing fuel materials could open the door to economically viable Read more
Image via Wikipedia Self-repairing materials within nuclear reactors may one day become a reality as a result of research by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists. In a paper appearing M... Read more
Could methane-digesting bacteria and an Arctic cap of fresh water prevent a climate catastrophe? Methane trapped in Arctic ice (and elsewhere) could be rapidly released into the atmosphere a... Read more
