Departments of Energy and Agriculture Announce Bioenergy Projects in 10 States
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the selection of 10 projects that will receive funding aimed at accelerating genetic breeding programs to improve plant feedstocks for the production of biofuels, biopower, and bio-based products.
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ORNL, UTGSM Study Compares Structures of Huntington’s Disease Protein
Neutron scattering research at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has revealed clear structural differences in the normal and pathological forms of a protein involved in Huntington’s disease.
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Fundamental Chemistry Findings Could Help Extend Moore’s Law
A Berkeley Lab-Intel collaboration outlines the chemistry of photoresist, enabling smaller features for future generations of microprocessors.
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Ames Laboratory Home to First-in-nation DNP-NMR Instrument to Study Materials at Atomic Level
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory is now the home to a dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer that helps scientists understand how individual atoms are arranged in materials.
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Physicists Detect Process Even Rarer than the Long-Sought Higgs Particle
New stringent test of the Standard Model and the mechanism by which the Higgs imparts mass to other particles.
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Deep Within Spinach Leaves, Vibrations Enhance Efficiency of Photosynthesis
Biophysics researchers at the University of Michigan have used short pulses of light to peer into the mechanics of photosynthesis and illuminate the role that molecule vibrations play in the energy conversion process that powers life on our planet.
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US Reveals its Next Generation of Dark Matter Experiments
Together, the three experiments will search for a variety of types of dark matter particles.
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Dyeing to Learn More About Marine Viruses
Scientists from the University of Arizona collaborating with the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) are tagging viruses with fluorescent dye, a new strategy that allows for population surveys leading to a better understanding of viral diversity.
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Study Advances Limits for Ultrafast Nano-devices
A recent study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides new insights on the physical mechanisms governing the interplay of spin and heat at the nanoscale, and addresses the fundamental limits of ultrafast spintronic devices for data storage and information processing.
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U.S. Department of Energy Projects Win 31 R&D 100 Awards for 2014
The R&D 100 awards, sometimes called the “Oscars of Innovation,” are given annually in recognition of exceptional new products or processes that were developed and introduced into the marketplace during the previous year.
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Researchers Led by Stanford Engineer Figure Out How to Make More Efficient Fuel Cells
Using high-brilliance X-rays, researchers track the process that fuel cells use to produce electricity, knowledge that will help make large-scale alternative energy power systems more practical and reliable.
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Researchers Develop Method to Measure Positions of Atomic Sites with Groundbreaking Precision
Using a state-of-the-art microscope and new methods in image processing, a multi-institutional team of researchers has devised an inventive way to measure the positions of single atomic sites in materials more precisely than ever before.
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