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6 December 2021

MagLab educator named 2021 Gold Medal awardee

Carlos R. Villa who is usually surrounded by K-12 students now joins a list of prestigious honorees recognized by the Tallahassee Scientific Society for his contributions to science education

29 November 2021

Diagram illustrating three different patterns of superconductivity realized in a new material synthesized at MIT.

New material could be two superconductors in one

New research has potential applications in quantum computing and introduces a new way to measure the secrets of superconductivity.

22 November 2021

Illustrative scheme of the fungal cell wall as a composition of many different polysaccharides and associated proteins.

Understanding how pathogenic fungi build their carbohydrate armor

Molecular architecture of fungal cell walls and the structural responses to stresses revealed in new paper.

4 November 2021

From left, doctoral student Hamid Sanavandi and Associate Professor Wei Guo.

Low-gravity simulator design offers new avenues for space research

As humanity continues its exploration of the universe, the low-gravity environment of space presents unusual challenges for scientists and engineers.

19 October 2021

Professor Rob Schurko, the director of the NMR facility at the MagLab.

$1M Department of Energy grant to explore clean energy materials

New funding will explore the mysteries of the Platinum group elements to investigate possible alternatives to rare and expensive materials used in an array of clean energy applications.

3 October 2021

NSF grant funds new 40T superconducting magnet design

The world's next most powerful superconducting magnet will be designed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

22 September 2021

Laura Greene, chief scientist at the National MagLab

National Maglab Chief Scientist Appointed to President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Laura Greene is joining a prestigious group of advisors on US science and technology.

2 August 2021

From left, Jeremy Owens, an associate professor in the FSU Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, and Sean Newby, a graduate research assistant, analyzing thallium isotopes on instruments at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

MagLab Researchers find Oxygen Spike Coincided with Ancient Global Extinction

Researchers believe the ocean oxygenation occurred over a few tens of thousands of years, a very brief period in Earth’s geological history.

29 July 2021

Chaotic electrons heed 'limit' in strange metals

Researchers define calculation framework to explain why electrons traveling in any direction in a strange metal follow the "Planckian limit.”

3 May 2021

MagLab director named to National Academy of Sciences

Greg Boebinger, director of the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, has been named a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

22 April 2021

An illustration showing quantum vortex tubes undergoing apparent superdiffusion. The white dots represent trapped particle that the researchers tracked to visualize and track the motion of the tubes, and the red lines represent the random patterns that the particles traveled.

Researchers visualize the motion of vortices in superfluid turbulence

MagLab researchers visualized vortex tubes in a quantum fluid, findings that could help scientists better understand turbulence in quantum fluids, superconductors and beyond.

21 April 2021

You Lai (left) and Johanna Palmstrom (right) use the new duplex magnet at the Los Alamos MagLab Pulsed Field Facility. The same magnet was recently used for the first time in a series of experiments on the exotic Kondo insulator YbB12.

New pulsed magnet reveals a new state of matter in Kondo insulator

The experiment is the first to use the new duplex magnet at the National MagLab's Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos.

19 April 2021

Abiola Temidayo Oloye, left, a fifth-year doctoral candidate and the lead author of a study published in Superconductor Science and Technology, at an electron microscope with Fumitake Kametani, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and principal investigator for the study at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

Improving high-temperature superconductor wire performance

New research to understand how processing impacts bismuth-based superconducting wires could help power future magnets or particle accelerators.

1 April 2021

International study discovers ancient meteoritic impact over Antarctica 430,000 years ago

Evidence indicates that this Antarctic airburst is the largest known airburst ever.

29 March 2021

World's strongest superconducting magnet open for science

Made with high-temperature superconductors, the National MagLab's newest instrument offers researchers strength and stability to explore quantum materials.

23 March 2021

Researchers have discovered a way to manipulate the repulsive force between electrons in "magic-angle" graphene, which provides new insight into how this material is able to conduct electricity with zero resistance.

New research on superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene

A story of synergistic science showcases how theory and experimental research teamed up to yield first direct evidence of the nature of superconductivity in a promising material called magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene.