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New commercial fuel cell factory delivers on Los Alamos National Laboratory technology

“Advent Technologies to manufacture next-generation hydrogen fuel cells that could power transportation and industry The opening of a new hydrogen fuel cell research, development and manufacturing facility in Massachusetts is helping drive fuel cell technology forward, closer to a future …

Light amplification by stimulated emission from electrically driven colloidal quantum dots finally achieved

“In Nature article, Los Alamos National Laboratory team realizes long-sought capabilities for semiconductor nanocrystal light-amplification devices In a result decades in the making, Los Alamos scientists have achieved light amplification with electrically driven devices based on solution-cast semiconductor nanocrystals — tiny …

New imaging technology identifies material defects and composition in unprecedented detail

“The detector provides ultra-sensitive elemental and chemical composition analysis. A team of researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a new Hyperspectral X-ray Imaging (HXI) detector that provides ultra-sensitive elemental and chemical composition analysis for a variety of materials …

1 device, 2 functions: A laser and an LED

“Lab researchers drive colloidal quantum dot lasing technology closer to device-ready A Los Alamos National Laboratory team has overcome key challenges toward technologically viable high-intensity light emitters based on colloidal quantum dot technology, resulting in dual-function devices that operate as …

Machine-learning models, guided by physics, will improve subsurface imaging

“Potential applications include energy exploration and earthquake early warning, among others A team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory is applying machine-learning algorithms to subsurface imaging that will impact a variety of applications, including energy exploration, carbon capture and …

Ultrasound technology helps with brewing better beer

“With the new year upon us, many beer lovers will be spreading the cheer at one of our great local brewpubs. As they hoist a tasty toast to new beginnings, not many revelers are likely to pause to ponder the …

Unusual gamma-ray burst reveals previously undetected hybrid neutron-star merger event

“The standard view of gamma-ray bursts as a signature for different types of dying stars might need a rewrite. Recent astronomical observations, supported by theoretical modeling, reveal a new observational fingerprint of neutron-star mergers, which may shed light on the …

AI predicts physics of future fault slip in laboratory earthquakes

“Analyzing seismic signals, a natural-language processing approach ‘auto-fills’ the future physical state of a fault in an earthquake machine, with potential applications in Earth An artificial-intelligence approach borrowed from natural-language processing — much like language translation and auto-fill for text on …

Quantum AI breakthrough: theorem shrinks appetite for training data

“Rigorous math proves neural networks can train on minimal data, providing ‘new hope’ for quantum AI and taking a big step toward quantum advantage. Training a quantum neural network requires only a small amount of data, according to a new …

Quantum annealing can beat classical computing in limited cases

“Under most conditions, according to a new proof, algorithms on a quantum annealing computer don’t offer quantum speedup Recent research proves that under certain conditions, quantum annealing computers can run algorithms — including the well-known Shor’s algorithm — more quickly …