DOE National Laboratory
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Leading nickelate superconductor research
Scientists just cracked a problem that's plagued superconductor research for decades: how to make these wonder materials work without crushing them under diamond-anvil pressures. In February 2025, teams at SLAC and Stanford stabilized nickelate superconductors at everyday pressure using substrate compression, while University of Houston researchers locked in a superconducting state using a rapid pressure-release technique. Both still require ultra-cold temperatures, but eliminating the pressure constraint opens the door to real experiments—and eventually, to lossless power grids and fault-tolerant quantum computers.
Updated Jan 7
Completed LSST Camera construction
On June 23, 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images—and they're staggering. A 3.2-gigapixel camera, the largest ever built for astronomy, captured 10 million galaxies in a single frame. In just 10 hours of test observations, it found 2,104 asteroids nobody knew existed, including seven near-Earth objects. This isn't a telescope taking pretty pictures—it's a time machine that will photograph the entire Southern Hemisphere sky every three nights for a decade.
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