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Rising Stars Seek to Learn from the Master: Mother Nature

Trio recognized for uncovering biochemical secrets behind nature’s efficient production of fuels.

The Stories Behind the Science: How Does the Ocean’s Saltiness Affect Tropical Storms?

How two researchers discovered that the factors behind storms’ strength are more complex than scientists previously thought.

Redesigning Poplar Trees to Take the Drought ... and the Salt and the Heat

A multi-institutional team is working on a multi-million-dollar, multi-year project funded by DOE's Office of Science to improve poplar trees to produce more biomass for biofuel applications.

Peering Into 36-Million-Degree Plasma with SLAC’s X-ray Laser

In a first, researchers measure extremely small and fast changes that occur in plasma when it’s zapped with a laser. Their technique will have applications in astrophysics, medicine and fusion energy.

Solving a Plasma Physics Mystery: Magnetic Reconnection

Magnetic reconnection causes storms in space and can damage fusion research devices on earth. Researchers are investigating why and how it happens so fast.

How a Molecular Signal Helps Plant Cells Decide When to Make Oil

A study at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory identifies new details of how a sugar-signaling molecule helps regulate oil production in plant cells.

First Particle Tracks Seen in Prototype for International Neutrino Experiment

The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of a new chapter in the story of the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).

A Trick of the Light

Argonne researchers are using nanoparticles to make photodetectors better able to handle the ultraviolet radiation produced in high-energy physics experiments.

When Your X-Ray Subject Has Wings: Peering Inside Insects with the Advanced Photon Source

One of the world’s most powerful X-rays is making it possible for scientists to see inside insects in real-time.

LHC Scientists Detect Most Favored Higgs Decay

Today at CERN, the Large Hadron Collider collaborations ATLAS and CMS jointly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson transforming into bottom quarks as it decays.

Meet Jasmine Hatcher and Trishelle Copeland-Johnson

Graduate students reflect on launching their research careers at national laboratories.

From Great Prairie to Gigabytes: Sequencing the Genomes of a Microbial Ecosystem

Scientists are studying microbes in the Great Prairie of the American Midwest to understand the role these tiny organisms play in its ecology and productivity.