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Water Leads to Chemical that Gunks Up Biofuels Production

A study at Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) shows water trips up key chemical reactions that turn plants into fuels, provides scientific principles that can speed up biofuel development.

New Project is the ACME of Addressing Climate Change

High performance computing (HPC) will be used to develop and apply the most complete climate and Earth system model to address the most challenging and demanding climate change issues.

Bacterial Nanowires Not What Scientists Thought They Were

A team led by scientists at USC has now turned the study of these bacterial nanowires on its head, discovering that the key features in question are not pili, as previously believed, but rather extensions of the bacteria’s outer membrane equipped with proteins that transfer electrons called “cytochromes.”

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Researchers Working on Smaller, Faster Chip

Computer chips are getting smaller and faster, but not without some serious scientific research happening high on a hill in Berkeley.

Bionic Liquids from Lignin

New results from the Joint BioEnergy Institute pave the way for closed loop biofuel refineries.

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First Indirect Evidence of So-Far Undetected Strange Baryons

"Invisible" particles containing at least one strange quark lower the temperature at which other particles "freeze out" from quark-gluon plasma.

Promising Ferroelectric Materials Suffer From Unexpected Electric Polarizations

Brookhaven Lab scientists find surprising locked charge polarizations that impede performance in next-gen materials that could otherwise revolutionize data-driven devices.

SLAC Secures Role in Energy Frontier Research Center Focused on Next-generation Materials

The Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will play a key role in a research consortium that seeks out new materials for next-generation solar panels, low-energy lighting and other uses.

Jefferson Lab Accelerator Upgrade Completed: Initial Operations Set to Begin While Experimental Equipment Upgrades Continue

The Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (“Jefferson Lab”) has just received formal approval from DOE to begin initial operations of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) as part of its ongoing $338 million upgrade.

Eco-friendly ‘Pre-fab Nanoparticles’ Could Revolutionize Nano Manufacturing

A team of materials chemists, polymer scientists, device physicists and others at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today report a breakthrough technique for controlling molecular assembly of nanoparticles over multiple length scales that should allow faster, cheaper, more ecologically friendly manufacture of organic photovoltaics and other electronic devices.

NERSC Launches Next-Generation Code Optimization Effort

NERSC, Intel, Cray team up to prepare users for transition to exascale computing.

Water’s Reaction with Metal Oxides Opens Doors for Researchers

In a paper published recently in the journal Nature Communications, Manos Mavrikakis, professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his collaborators report fundamental discoveries about how water reacts with metal oxides.