Astrobites reports on how astronomers got a closer view of the distant and mysterious little red dots.

Bennu is a small, near-Earth asteroid that passes relatively close to Earth about every six years. It was the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

In four-walled racket sports such as squash, one type of shot reigns supreme: the nick. It occurs when a player hits the 4-centimeter ball to the right-angled spot where the wall of the court meets th...

Now-canceled CMB-S4 project would have searched the afterglow of the Big Bang for signs of cosmic exponential growth spurt

The final results from the Muon g − 2 experiment agree with the latest predictions of the muon’s magnetic properties—letting down hopes that the particle would upset the standard model’s applecart.

During a visit to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced a new contract with Dell Technologies to develop NERSC-10, the next flagship su...

Over billions of years, the universe has transformed from a simpler state into an intricate cosmic web, but new research hints that the growth of cosmic structures may not have unfolded exactly as pre...

Dive into a new data set released by Meta, charting immigration flows among 181 countries over four years.

A new class of semiconductors that can store information in electric fields could enable computers that run on less power, sensors with quantum precision, and the conversion of signals between electri...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument used millions of galaxies and quasars to build the largest 3D map of our universe to date.

We watched as the two young boys stuck their shovels in the ground and painstakingly dug up the remains of the underpants.

Playoff executives explored changes to the 2025 postseason Tuesday but came to no decision on a proposal from the Big Ten and SEC to alter the playoff seeding.

The world’s nations convened this week in Hangzhou, China, to plan the next major international assessment of climate science—but without the United States.

Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a team of scientists have compiled the largest sample ever of dwarf galaxies that host an actively feeding black hole, as well as...

The SCGSR program provides supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to pursue part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE laboratory/facility in areas that address scientific chal...

Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars

Jan. 31, 2025 — With the help of supercomputers at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have confirmed throug...

OpenStar’s levitating dipole device ditches the traditional doughnut-shaped design

A new report from the Future of Life Institute gave mostly Ds and Fs

With as many as 800,000 forgotten oil and gas wells scattered across the US, researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), have developed an AI model capable of accurately locating…

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Data from the South Pole Telescope has provided support for the standard model of the Big Bang universe and new insights for an ongoing scientific puzzle known as “the Hubble tension.”

Lauren Lui, a research scientist with Berkeley Lab, is set on uncovering how the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta's microscopic life impacts the ecological health of the area and the quality of Cali...

Faculty members say academic freedom is under fire, and many are seeking work outside the region.

Scientists have found a way to decrease the production of a certain type of electromagnetic wave to boost heating in fusion plasma.

This economic evaluation uses community-based data to estimate outcomes, costs, and life-years gained associated with additional fecal immunochemical testing or colonoscopy for colorectal cancer.

Using interfacial charge transfer to control cation charges in oxide superlattices offers insights for designing functional heterostructures.

Dec. 13, 2024 — NERSC Systems Department Head Tina Declerck began working at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) in 1997, and she still thinks it’s a fun place […]

Researchers used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to map how nearly 6 million galaxies cluster across 11 billion years of cosmic history.

Nuclear theorists uncover the mass distribution within the pion and the proton through groundbreaking first-principle numerical calculations. Scientists use the trace anomaly in spacetime to understan...

Calcium carbonate mineralization occurs through a multi-step process that begins with a dense liquid phase.

New theory-based approach gives access to quarks’ tiny transverse motion within protons.

Seismic waves traversing the interior of the planet reveal continent-sized regions with distinct physical properties. Researchers are investigating what they ar

Undocumented orphaned wells pose hazards to both the environment and the climate. Scientists are building modern tools to help locate, assess, and pave the way for ultimately plugging these forgotten ...

The largest scholarly search engine is celebrating its 20th birthday, but AI-driven competitors offer advantages.

Survey highlights disparity between academic and industry scientists’ access to computing power needed to train machine-learning models.