2016 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Researchers Use World's Smallest Diamonds to Make Wires Three Atoms Wide

Scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a way to use diamondoids – the smallest possible bits of diamond – to assemble atoms into the thinnest possible electrical wires, just three atoms wide.

Laser Pulses Help Scientists Tease Apart Complex Electron Interactions

Time-resolved "stop-action" measurements identify an unusual form of energy loss.

New Graphene-Based System Could Help Us ‘See’ Electrical Signaling in Heart and Nerve Cells

Berkeley-Stanford team creates a system to visualize faint electric fields.

Meet the Director: Buddy Bland

Project director Buddy Bland lives the DOE’s computing mission: to discover, develop, and use computers to solve the biggest problems in science, industry, and government.

A Syllabus in Cosmic Rays

What have scientists learned in five years of studying cosmic rays with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment?

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Meet the Director: Andrew Hutton

Director of the CEBAF user facility Andrew Hutton’s love for accelerators started at age 17.

Glowing Crystals Can Detect, Cleanse Contaminated Drinking Water

X-ray study at Berkeley Lab explores atomic structure of tiny traps for heavy metals.

X-Rays Capture Unprecedented Images of Photosynthesis in Action

Berkeley Lab-led scientists illuminate protein as it splits water to create oxygen.

Supercomputers’ Pit Crews

Smart, tough teams help scientists get the best performance from supercomputers to provide the insights needed to understand how everything from clouds to supernovae works.

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Simulations Show Swirling Rings, Whirlpool-Like Structure in Subatomic ‘Soup’

International team including Berkeley Lab researcher surprised by complex dynamics in model of quark-gluon plasma.

SLAC and Berkeley Lab Researchers Prepare for Scientific Computing on the Exascale

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is developing cutting-edge scientific applications in two computing projects for future exascale supercomputers that can perform at least a billion billion operations per second.

Photosynthesis: Gathering Sunshine with the World’s Smallest Antennas

Research on photosynthetic antenna complexes illuminates how they harvest light in plants, algae and bacteria.