2015 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Fortifying Computer Chips for Space Travel

Berkeley Lab's particle accelerator blasts microprocessors with high-energy beams to toughen them up.

Nailing Down the Jet Stream

A team of scientists led by PNNL has developed a mathematical framework that provides guidance to how global climate models can more accurately simulate the behavior of the all-important jet stream.

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ORNL-Developed Building Efficiency Software Now Available

A set of automated calibration techniques for tuning residential and commercial building energy efficiency software models to match measured data is now available as an open source code.

Please Do Spill the Oxygen

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Karl-Franzens University in Austria show how clusters funnel atoms to create oxygen pools that benefit biofuels, fuel cells, and sensors.

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Global Team Seeks Individual X-ray Portraits of Active Viruses, Bacteria and Cell Components

A major international collaboration launched by the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is laying the technical groundwork for taking individual, atomic-scale portraits of intact viruses, living bacteria and other microscopic samples using the brightest X-ray light on Earth.

Making Fuel From Light: Argonne Research Sheds Light on Photosynthesis and Creation of Solar Fuel

Recent experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have afforded researchers a greater understanding of how to manipulate photosynthesis, putting humankind one step closer to harvesting “solar fuel,” a clean energy source that could one day help replace coal and natural gas.

Time-Lapse Analysis Offers New Look at How Cells Repair DNA Damage

Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a computerized way to measure DNA repair in thousands of human mammary epithelial cells before and after they’re exposed to ionizing radiation.

Gaming Computers Offer Huge, Untapped Energy Savings Potential

Berkeley Lab energy analysis finds gaming computers consume $10 billion in electricity per year.

Four Brookhaven Lab Projects Selected as R&D 100 Award Finalists

Four Brookhaven National Laboratory projects have been selected as finalists for the 2015 R&D 100 awards, which honor the top 100 proven technological advances of the past year as determined by a panel selected by R&D Magazine.

NERSC Accelerates Scientific Analysis with SCIDB

Through SciDB – an open source database system designed to store and analyze extremely large array-structured data – scientists are making better use of the vast flows of information coming in on topics such as astronomy, climate and biology.

Two Great Catalysts that Work Great Together

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis have discovered that a combination of two simple, inexpensive, metal-free catalysts can approach the efficiency of the platinum catalyst in conventional fuel cells.

Soaking Up Carbon Dioxide and Turning it into Valuable Products

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have incorporated molecules of carbon dioxide reduction catalysts into the sponge-like crystals of covalent organic frameworks (COFs).