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26-Sep-2025

New ORNL aluminum alloy to strengthen domestic auto supply chain

Over the next decade, aluminum auto body scrap will flood salvage systems, much of it too impure for reuse in critical parts. ORNL researchers developed RidgeAlloy, a new aluminum alloy that turns low-value scrap into a reliable, high-value domestic supply for structural automotive manufacturing.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

24-Sep-2025

Caltech team sets record with 6,100-qubit array

California Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Caltech physicists have created the largest qubit array ever assembled: 6,100 neutral-atom qubits trapped in a grid by lasers. Previous arrays of this kind contained only hundreds of qubits.

Journal: Nature
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Army Research Office, DOE/US Department of Energy, Heising-Simons Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

19-Sep-2025

Quantum chemistry: Making key simulation approach more accurate

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new trick for modeling molecules with quantum accuracy takes a step toward revealing the equation at the center of a popular simulation approach, which is used in fundamental chemistry and materials science studies.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

19-Sep-2025

Mixing neutrinos of colliding neutron stars changes how merger unfolds

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how the merger unfolds, as well as the resulting emissions. The findings have implications for longstanding questions about the origins of metals and rare earth elements as well as understanding physics in extreme environments.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation

16-Sep-2025

A new way to produce ammonia more efficiently

Princeton University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new approach for making the chemical ammonia using plasma — the fourth state of matter — could revolutionize how hydrogen is stored and transported and drive down the price of various manufacturing processes.

Journal: ACS Energy Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, DOE/US Department of Energy, DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation

11-Sep-2025

Johns Hopkins researchers discover new methods for making smaller microchips

Johns Hopkins University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have discovered how to create circuits that are so small they’re invisible to the naked eye using a process that is both precise and economical for manufacturing.

Journal: Nature Chemical Engineering
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation of China

10-Sep-2025

A new way to guide light, undeterred

University of Pennsylvania
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The University of Pennsylvania's Bo Zhen and postdoctoral researcher Li He developed a system for guiding light through tiny crystals in ways that allow it to navigate undeterred by bumps and defects. Their work could lead to sturdier lasers, faster data links, and light-based chips that don’t get tripped up by imperfections.

Journal: Nature Nanotechnology
Funder: Office of Naval Research, Army Research Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation

9-Sep-2025

New research suggests path toward more durable flexible electronics

Brown University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Brown University’s School of Engineering have discovered new details about how destructive cracks form in flexible electronic devices — and how to prevent them.

Journal: npj Flexible Electronics
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research