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Ten blocks of the Belltown neighborhood in downtown Seattle house an eclectic mix of retail stores, apartments, and restaurants that require daily deliveries of goods—from fresh seafood for the evening’s dinner special to the latest…

A clever idea to use magnetic nanoparticles to capture valuable materials from brines has blossomed into industrial-scale pilot projects that could help make the U.S. a producer of critical minerals used in electronics and energy…

Even before the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland detected the elusive subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson in 2012, scientists around the world were already hard at work planning for the next particle accelerator.…

In-home storage of electricity—which can be generated by residential solar panels—can save a homeowner money on their electric bills. It also can benefit the electric company and the power grid. That’s the takeaway from simulations of…

Quantum computers are exciting in part because they are being designed to show how the world is held together. This invisible “glue” is made of impossibly tiny particles and energy. And like all glue, it’s kind of messy.Once the formula…

Urban landscapes and human-made aerosols—particles suspended in the atmosphere—have the potential to not only make gusts stronger and hail larger; they can also start storms sooner and even pull them toward cities, according to new…

California and other areas of the U.S. Southwest may see less future winter precipitation than previously projected by climate models. After probing a persistent error in widely used models, researchers at the Department of Energy’s…