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View inside the vacuum vessel of the Wendelstein 7-X in Greifswald, Germany. (Photo credit: Jan Hosan / Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)

Wendelstein 7-X Sets New Performance Records in Fusion Research

A new fusion record was set thanks to researchers in Germany and the United States. The international effort moves the…

A new passive water harvester, developed by MIT engineers, harvests water from air. The team showed the device can collect water even in dry environments such as Death Valley, pictured here. Credit: Image courtesy of the researchers

Window-Sized Device Taps the Air for Safe Drinking Water

Today, 2.2 billion people in the world lack access to safe drinking water. In the United States, more than 46…

New technology combining high-speed MRI with machine learning methods for data processing found metabolic changes in oligodendroglioma brain tumors. Clinical MRI, in the left two columns, could not distinguish between tumors of grade II, top, and grade III, bottom. However, the new technique found elevated levels of choline and lactate in the grade III tumor. Image courtesy of Yibo Zhao

New MRI Approach Maps Brain Metabolism, Revealing Disease Signatures

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new technology that uses clinical MRI machines to image metabolic activity in the brain could give…

U.S. RDECOM C&B Center scientist Terrence D’Onofrio, in full CB suit protection, outfits Porton Man with sensors prior to a test.

Porton Man Robotic Test System

DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah – The Mission and Installation Contracting Command has awarded a $1.7 million contract to develop a…

Close-up of a superconducting sensor board containing multiple transition edge sensors (top row of squares), which detect energy released by individual radioactive decay events. Credit: M. Carlson/NIST

New NIST Method Precisely Measures Radioactivity in Tiny Samples

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new and faster method for detecting and…

From left: chemists Brian Mayer and Katelyn Mason and biologist Todd Corzett observe the operation of the robot that independently executes the acetylchlolinersterase assays the team uses to assess Novichok inhibition and to discover new oxime antidotes for Novichok poisoning. (Photo: Blaise Douros/LLNL)

LLNL and Purdue University Accelerate Discovery of Medical Countermeasures for Emerging Chemical Threats

In a major advance for chemical defense and public safety, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) Forensic Science Center…

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Venado’s Yearlong Voyage Powers Vital AI Science

In the year following its April 2024 ribbon-cutting, Venado — the lab’s newest, artificial intelligence (AI)-capable supercomputer — racked up…

image of a produce farm with cyber network connections on top of it

University of Nebraska Researchers at Forefront to Address Agriculture-Related Cyber Vulnerabilities

Cyberattacks on agribusinesses in recent years have demonstrated hackers’ ability to shut down processing plants, halt livestock purchases, and cost…

S&T recently tested the performance of technologies like DePLife, which was upgraded with a motion compensation algorithm. Here, MIT LL researcher Noah Yared holds a DePLife prototype. Photo credit: MIT LL.

Testing New Technologies That Help Law Enforcement “See” Through Walls

Last month, S&T completed the development of DePLife, a technology that leverages radar to “see” through walls, providing law enforcement…

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NSRI Leverages NU Biosecurity, Supply Chain Resilience Expertise for Critical Disease Research

Surges in avian flu in the U.S and African swine fever and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) around the world have heightened…

The oft-studied Arabidopsis thaliana plant provided the enzyme for a discovery by Rutgers and Brookhaven scientists. (Credit: Eric Lam)

Scientists Find a New Way to Help Plants Fight Diseases

In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed knowledge about…

The left clear sample is the world’s first 100% bio-based acetonitrile that meets oligonucleotide-grade specifications. On the right is aviation fuel blendstock. Photo by Gregory Cooper, NREL

NREL and Crysalis Biosciences Collaborate to Scale up Domestic Biomanufacturing Technologies

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is known for its groundbreaking research in impactful bioenergy…