The Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino program will use three detectors: SBND, MicroBooNE (shown here) and ICARUS.
Credit: Reidar Hahn
In 1995, physicists working on the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector, or LSND, at Los Alamos National Laboratory stumbled upon some curious results.
The experiment,...
Fermilab's Main Injector accelerator, one of the most powerful particle accelerators in the world, has just achieved a world record for high-energy beams for neutrino experiments.
Credit: Fermilab
A key element in a particle-accelerator-based neutrino experiment is the power of the...
One of the researchers' quadcopter drones with wheels is shown.
Credit: Brandon Araki/MIT CSAIL
Being able to both walk and take flight is typical in nature -- many birds, insects, and other animals can do both. If we could program robots...
Dr. Xiaopu Zhang and Professor John Boland.
Credit: AMBER, Trinity College Dublin
A team of researchers from AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland funded materials science centre based in Trinity College Dublin, have made a breakthrough in the area of material design...
The magnetic and electronic states of newly discovered Sr1-yMn1-zSb2 are depicted by spheres representing the positions of the atoms in the crystal structure of this material with strontium (Sr) depicted by the small violet spheres; antimony (Sb) by the...
A simulation (top row) and real-world experiment (bottom row) match for the same jumping mechanism designed to flip over a wall and land right side up on the other side. This simulation was generated by a new method that...
VAMPs are shown actuated and cut open in cross section. The cross section shows the inner chambers that collapse when vacuum is applied.
Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University
To make robots more cooperative and have them perform tasks in close...
Vanderbilt undergraduate Thomas Metke demonstrates the ultrathin energy harvesting device which is taped across his elbow. As he flexes his arm the current the device generates is displayed on the computer display.
Credit: John Russell, Vanderbilt University
Imagine slipping into a...
LED light bulb. (Stock image)
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In an advance that could boost the efficiency of LED lighting by 50 percent and even pave the way for invisibility cloaking devices, a team of University of Michigan researchers has...
Shark model with the mouth on the left and shoulder bones to the right. With a bamboo shark, after food is swallowed the bones of the shoulder girdle (shown partially blue) move back, drawing food in farther.
Credit: Ariel Camp...
Predicted structure of the group 1 allergen protein from an American house dust mite. Arrow points to the location of a novel mutation discovered by the University of Michigan-led team.
Credit: Rubaba Hamid
As if holiday travel isn't stressful enough. Now...
