Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a detailed model of the source of a puzzling limitation on fusion reactions. The findings, published in June in Physics of Plasmas, complete and confirm previous PPPL research and could lead to steps to overcome the barrier if the model proves consistent with experimental data. “We used to have correlation,” said physicist David Gates, first author of the paper. “Now we believe we have causation.” This work was supported by the DOE Office of Science.

10 years after graduating, many have found financially solid and meaningful employment in the private sector, according to a new report from the American Institute of Physics.

A new recycling method developed by scientists at the Critical Materials Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory, recovers valuable rare-earth magnetic material from manufacturing waste and creates useful magnets out of it. Efficient waste-recovery methods for rare-earth metals are one way to reduce demand for these limited mined resources.

Research supports 80-year-old prediction.

Consumers rely too much on sunscreen SPF values, confused by terminology 

Experimental therapy restores normal fat metabolism in animals with atherosclerosis.

Plants need water. People need water. Unfortunately, there’s only so much clean water to go around — and so the effort begins to find a solution.

Sometimes looking at something at the smallest scale can lead to solutions to big problems.

Resulting yarn was about as strong as a strand of merino wool

It took marine sponges millions of years to perfect their spike-like structures, but research mimicking these formations may soon alter how industrial coatings and 3-D printed to additively manufactured objects are produced.

Energy from your body heat and motion could fuel the future of preventive health care.

Nonphotosynthetic pigments could be biosignatures of life on other worlds.