2014 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Generations of Supercomputers Pin Down Primordial Plasma

As one groundbreaking IBM system retires, a new Blue Gene supercomputer comes online at Brookhaven Lab to help precisely model subatomic interactions.

A New Angle on Controlling Light

MIT researchers have produced a system that allows light of any color to pass through only if it is coming from one specific angle; the technique reflects all light coming from other directions. This new approach could ultimately lead to advances in solar photovoltaics, detectors for telescopes and microscopes, and privacy filters for display screens.

Human-Induced Climate Change Reduces Chance of Flooding in Okavango Delta

Researchers at the University of Cape Town, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the United Nations Development Programme have analyzed how human-induced climate change has affected recent flooding in an ecologically and geographically unique river basin in southern Africa—the Okavango River.

Bacteria That Produces a Rocket-Powering Biofuel Developed by Scientists at Georgia Tech.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered a bacterium to synthesize pinene, a hydrocarbon produced by trees that could potentially replace high-energy fuels, such as JP-10, in missiles and other aerospace applications.

Titan Project Explores the Smallest Building Blocks of Matter

A team from Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Virginia is working to deepen our understanding of quarks, enlisting the help of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan supercomputer.

Saving the Sunshine for Night: Solar Fuels From Artificial Photosynthesis

Direct visible light water splitting in a dye-sensitized photoelectrosynthesis cell makes hydrogen for energy storage.

Lawrence Livermore Scientists Discover Bacterial Resistance to Improve Biofuel Production

Lawrence Livermore researchers discovered a resistance mechanism in a rainforest soil bacterium that enables E. coli to grow and produce biofuel in the presence of ionic liquids at levels that otherwise would be toxic to native strains.

Shifting Evolution into Reverse Promises Cheaper, Greener Way to Make New Drugs

Alternative approach to creating artificial organic molecules, called bioretrosynthesis, was first proposed four years ago by Brian Bachmann, associate professor of chemistry at Vanderbilt University.

Department of Energy Issues Request for Proposals for Contractor to Manage and Operate Brookhaven National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the issuance of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the competitive selection of an approximately $3.25 billion, five-year, management-and-operations contract for Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

Discovery of New Semiconductor Holds Promise for 2D Physics and Electronics

Discovery of a unique new two-dimensional semiconductor, rhenium disulfide, by researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry opens the door to 2D electronic applications with a 3D material and also makes it possible to study 2D physics with easy-to-make 3D crystals.

International Team of LHC and Tevatron Scientists Announces First Joint Result

Scientists working on the world’s leading particle collider experiments have joined forces, combined their data and produced the first joint result from Fermilab’s Tevatron and CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) one the mass of the top quark .

Democratizing Science With High Speed Networks

SWARPES sheds light on the scientific potential for remote microscopy.