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

Scientists Look to Next Decades in U.S. Particle Physics

From the output of an ongoing meeting, U.S. particle physicists – including experts from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science – will chart a path to answering some of science’s most intriguing questions.

Winners of the Ten-Hundred and One Word Challenge Contest

The Ten Hundred and One Word Challenge invited the 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to represent their science in images, cartoons, photos, words and original paintings, but any descriptions or words could only use the 1000 most commonly used words in the English language, with the addition of one word important to each of the EFRCs and the mission of DOE: energy.

Discovery of Rare Decay Narrows Space for New Physics

After a quarter of a century of searching, physicists have discovered a rare particle decay that gives them an indirect way to test models of new physics.

Massive Muon Ring Moves Up the Mighty Mississippi

Fifty-foot-wide electromagnet is on a 3,200 mile journey to its new home at Fermilab.

Successful Test of New U.S. Magnet Puts Large Hadron Collider on Track for Major Upgrade

U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories – including Berkeley Lab - collaborate to build the new magnets CERN needs to increase LHC luminosity by an order of magnitude.

Department of Energy Lab Field Study Will Sample Aerosols from Biomass Burning

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), working with colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), will conduct a field campaign this summer and fall in the skies over the Pacific Northwest and Tennessee to measure the evolution of aerosols in wildfires and prescribed agriculture burns, respectively.

New Mira Supercomputer Dedicated at Argonne National Laboratory

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) led the dedication of the new Mira supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory on Monday, underscoring the importance of high-performance computing to scientific research, industrial innovation and our nation’s economic future.

Tiny Nanocubes Help Scientists Tell Left from Right

New method could improve drug development, optical sensors and more.

Around the US in 17 Labs

Use symmetry’s interactive map to learn more about what goes on at the national laboratories, including the 10 institutions under the purview of the DOE Office of Science.

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Ames National Laboratory Scientists Solve Riddle of Strangely Behaving Magnetic Material

Materials scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames National Laboratory have found an accurate way to explain the magnetic properties of a compound that has mystified the scientific community for decades.

Nigel Lockyer of Canada’s TRIUMF Lab Named Fermilab Director

Nigel Lockyer, director of Canada’s TRIUMF laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia, has been selected to become the next director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. A suite of new projects awaits Lockyer at Fermilab, which is America’s premier laboratory for particle physics research.

Scientists Combine X-rays and Microscopes for Precise Experiments

By pairing the capabilities of X-ray analysis and extremely precise microscopy, scientists at Argonne have developed a way to simultaneously determine the physical structure and chemical makeup of materials at close to the atomic level.