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

Procter & Gamble and Temple University Scientists Model Skin’s Makeup Using Titan Supercomputer

Simulations run on the nation’s most powerful supercomputer for open science gave researchers a molecular-level understanding of how our skin performs some of its essential functions.

Latest Supercomputers Enable High-Resolution Climate Models, Truer Simulation of Extreme Weather

Berkeley Lab researcher says climate science is entering a new golden age.

Energy Department Awards New Contract to Manage and Operate Brookhaven National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a new five-year, $3.2 billion contract to Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) to manage and operate Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Investigating the Earth’s Inner Workings

A team is using Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Titan supercomputer to reveal the Earth’s inner workings via adjoint tomography simulations, or monitoring the interaction of a forward wavefield, in which the waves travel from the source to the receivers, and an “adjoint” wavefield in which the waves travel inversely from the receivers to the source.

ORNL Materials Researchers Get First Look at Atom-thin Boundaries

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have made the first direct observations of a one-dimensional boundary separating two different, atom-thin materials, enabling studies of long-theorized phenomena at these interfaces.

Termite of the Sea’s Wood Destruction Strategy Revealed

For bioenergy researchers, including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, the shipworm’s destructive capabilities could prove useful for the industrial production of advanced biofuels from woody plant mass.

Discovering the Undiscovered

Researchers at the Joint Genome Institute advance new tools to fill the microbial tree of life.

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Golden Approach to High-speed DNA Reading

Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California Berkeley create unique graphene nanopores with optical antennas for DNA sequencing.

Mountains and Winds Confound Particle Distribution

Data gathered by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and their collaborators show that local recirculation patterns, rather than the long-range transport of pollutants, create layers of aerosols above California’s Central Valley.

Physicists Narrow Search for Solution to Proton Spin Puzzle

New Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) results reveal that gluons make a significant contribution to spin, an important intrinsic particle property; transient sea quarks also play a role.

Mathematical Models Shed New Light on Cancer Mutations

A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, using computing resources at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), have demonstrated a mathematical toolkit that can turn cancer-mutation data into multidimensional models to show how specific mutations alter the social networks of proteins in cells.

Global Model Comparison Project Finds Large Diversity of Organic Aerosol Representations

More than 70 researchers from 46 international institutions compared the ability of 31 models to simulate comprehensive physical and chemical characteristics and lifecycle of carbon-containing atmospheric vapor and particles.