2018 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Champions in Science: Profile of Andrew Mills, National Science Bowl® Champion

For the run-up to the 2018 National Science Bowl® Finals April 26 to April 30, this is one in a series of profiles on previous NSB competitors.

Champions in Science: Profile of Francois Greer, National Science Bowl® Champion

For the run-up to the 2018 National Science Bowl® Finals April 26 to April 30, this is one in a series of profiles on previous NSB competitors.

Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab Delivers an Unprecedented Measurement

MiniBooNE scientists demonstrate a new way to probe the nucleus with muon neutrinos.

Champions in Science: Profile of Candice Kamachi, National Science Bowl® Champion

For the run-up to the 2018 National Science Bowl® Finals April 26 to April 30, this is one in a series of profiles on previous NSB competitors.

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry Announces $1.8 Billion Initiative for New Supercomputers

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry today announced a Request for Proposals (RFP), potentially worth up to $1.8 billion, for the development of at least two new exascale supercomputers to be deployed at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories in the 2021-2023 timeframe.

Fusion Research Ignites Innovation

How technologies developed for fusion have taken on second lives in industry.

Champions in Science: Profile of Ian Scheffler, National Science Bowl® Champion, 2008

For the run-up to the 2018 National Science Bowl® Finals April 26 to April 30, this is one in a series of profiles on previous NSB competitors.

Berkeley Lab Scientists Print All-Liquid 3-D Structures

Reconfigurable material could be used for liquid electronics and chemical synthesis, among other applications.

Champions in Science: Profile of Jora Jacobi, National Science Bowl® Competitor

For the run-up to the 2018 National Science Bowl® Finals April 26 to April 30, this is one in a series of profiles on previous NSB competitors.

Underground Neutrino Experiment Sets the Stage for Deep Discovery About Matter

Collaborators of the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR, an experiment led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have shown they can shield a sensitive, scalable 44-kilogram germanium detector array from background radioactivity.

Hidden Medical Text Read for the First Time in a Thousand Years

With X-ray imaging at SLAC’s synchrotron, scientists uncovered a 6th century translation of a book by the Greek-Roman doctor Galen. The words had been scraped off the parchment manuscript and written over with hymns in the 11th century.

Sniffing Out the Foundational Science of Sensors

Studying how to make and combine cutting-edge materials is leading to cheaper, more efficient, and more sensitive gaseous sensors.