LHC Luminosity Upgrade Project Moving to Next Phase
This week more than 230 scientists and engineers from around the world met at CERN* to discuss the High-Luminosity LHC – a major upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that will increase the accelerator's discovery potential through 2025.
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Researchers Model Birth of Universe in One of the Largest Cosmological Simulations Ever Run
Researchers are sifting through an avalanche of data produced by one of the largest cosmological simulations ever performed, led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory.
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The Silent Treatment: EMSL's Quiet Wing
The Quiet Wing was engineered to prevent acoustic noise, vibrations and stray electromagnetic field sources from interfering with the high-resolution capabilities of EMSL’s seven state-of-the-art microscopes, enabling scientists to visualize the components of complex samples as atomic-scale images.
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Battery Mystery Solved: Atomic-Resolution Microscopy Answers Longstanding Questions About Lithium-Rich Cathode Material
Using complementary microscopy and spectroscopy techniques, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) say they have solved the structure of lithium- and manganese-rich transition metal oxides, a potentially game-changing battery material and the subject of intense debate in the decade since it was discovered.
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Scientists Call for National Effort to Understand and Harness Earth’s Microbes for Health, Energy, Agriculture, and Environment
To understand and harness the capabilities of Earth’s microbial ecosystems, nearly fifty scientists from Department of Energy national laboratories, universities, and research institutions have proposed a national effort called the Unified Microbiome Initiative.
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New ORNL Catalyst Features Unsurpassed Selectivity
Catalyst developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and highlighted in a paper published in Nature Communications features unprecedented selectivity and a conversion rate nearly twice that of conventional catalysts.
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Unraveling the Complex, Intertwined Electron Phases in a Superconductor
A team led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cornell University has characterized a key arrangement of electrons in a high-temperature superconductor, a material that can conduct electricity with almost no energy loss without being ultra-chilled.
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Keys to Access: Argonne-INCREASE Partnership Opens Doors to Collaboration
U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory is working to connect minority serving institutions with the facilities, tools and expertise at the lab by partnering with the Interdisciplinary Consortium for Research and Education and Access in Science and Engineering (INCREASE).
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Seeking Better Biofuels
Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a bustling hub of 150 scientists and staff, are working with the basics of plant biology to make fuels with molecules that have never been fuels before.
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Departments of Agriculture, Energy Partner to Award $4.9 Million for Bioenergy Research
The investment is part of the Obama Administration’s initiative to broaden and diversify America’s energy portfolio and increase the development of new clean energy technologies and enhance rural economies.
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California 2100: More Frequent and More Severe Droughts and Floods Likely
A study published in Nature Communications suggests that the weather patterns known as El Nino and La Nina could lead to at least a doubling of extreme droughts and floods in California later this century.
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Exciting Breakthrough in 2D Lasers
Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) embedded a monolayer of tungsten disulfide into a special microdisk resonator to achieve bright excitonic lasing at visible light wavelengths.
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