Ice Ice Maybe: New Ways to Search for Frozen Water on the Moon

Two circular topographical maps on a black background displaying distribution of surface ice at the Moon's south pole (left) and north pole (right). Blue represents the ice locations, plotted over an image of the lunar surface, where the gray scale corresponds to surface temperature (darker representing colder areas and lighter shades indicating warmer zones)

Pulling Graphite Out of Thin Air

Collage of phones, batteries, and a computer. Chunks of graphite are highlighted in a blue circle.

A New Application for Industry’s Toughest Lignin

Two researchers in a laboratory setting wearing white lab coats and standing in front of various equipment hold samples of brown-colored lignin.

GRETA Comes Online for a New Era of Nuclear Science

Close-up of GRETA’s two separated halves, showing germanium detector modules arranged around a central opening and surrounded by dense bundles of multicolored wiring and tubing.

Artificial Intelligence

A digital image of server racks forming a tunnel, with glowing lines and dots resembling data flow emerging from a central light source.

Accelerating scientific discovery with AI.

Quantum Science

Golden quantum fridge

Quantum information systems are poised to solve global challenges that are far beyond the reach of today’s technologies.

US lab initiative targets 5x faster engineering with next-gen supercomputing

Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow

U.S. Quantum Networks Expanding Even As NSF Funding Grows Less Predictable