2013 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Berkeley Lab Researchers Get a Detailed Look at a DNA Repair Protein in Action

Advanced research provides new insight into genome integrity and biological detection of mismatched DNA.

Canfield Receives American Physical Society David Adler Lectureship Award

Paul Canfield, scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University, has been selected by the American Physical Society for the 2014 David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics.

Grant Funds Development of Improved Nanoscale Additive Manufacturing

A new Department of Energy grant will fund research to advance an additive manufacturing technique for fabricating three-dimensional (3D) nanoscale structures from a variety of materials.

Weatherizing Homes to Uniform Standard Can Achieve $33 Billion in Annual Energy Savings

Berkeley Lab energy efficiency experts also calculate energy cost of upgrading ventilation.

Brookhaven Lab Helped Coax the Higgs Out of Hiding

There's good reason for Long Islanders to celebrate the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded last week to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert for their prediction of the Higgs particle and the mechanism by which it gives mass to the building blocks of our universe.

Energy Department to Award $100 Million for Energy Frontier Research Centers

Funding will help fuel innovative solutions toward next generation energy systems.

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Supercomputers Help Solve a 50-Year Homework Assignment

Calculation related to question of why the universe is made of matter.

Berkeley Lab Scientist Named MacArthur "Genius" Fellow

Physicist Carl Haber has turned techniques first developed for studying high-energy particles into technologies which will recover and restore some of the earliest recordings ever made.

Scientists Expand Search for Light Dark Matter

Physicists on the CDMS experiment have devised a better way to search for a particle that, if it exists, would revolutionize our ideas about dark matter.

Glass or Plastic?

Researchers at Georgia Tech, supported in part by the Office of Science, show that at tiny scales, the makeup of a container affects how fast the H2O flows.

Supercomputing the Transition from Ordinary to Extraordinary Forms of Matter

Calculations plus experimental data help map nuclear phase diagram, offering insight into transition that mimics formation of visible matter in universe today.