2016 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Energy Department Transfers Land to City of Oak Ridge as the Community Focuses on Future Economic Development

Today U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, U.S. Congressman Chuck Fleischmann and City of Oak Ridge Mayor Warren Gooch formalized an agreement to transfer the Department of Energy’s (DOE) American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE) building, along with its 17.12-acres, to the City of Oak Ridge.

Q&A with CFN Scientist Anibal Boscoboinik

Using surface-science tools and a 2D model system, Boscoboinik studies zeolite catalysts, which are used in oil refining, plastics production, and nitrogen oxide reduction.

Make-up, Structure, and Function—For Proteins and Research Teams

Brookhaven Lab team develops advanced research tools to help decode mysteries of genetics, improve human health using sound waves.

Biology and Neutrons Collide to Unlock Secrets of Fish Ear Bones

In a unique pairing of biology and neutron science, researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have gained new insights into aquatic biochemistry using the otoliths of the lake sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens.

Nanoscale 'Conversations' Create Complex, Multi-Layered Structures

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a way to efficiently create scalable, multilayer, multi-patterned nanoscale structures with unprecedented complexity.

Ames National Laboratory Develops Solvent-, Catalyst-Free Way to Produce Alkali Metal Hydrides

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory have found a way to create alkali metal hydrides without the use of solvents or catalysts.

Neutron Diffraction Probes Forms of Carbon Dioxide in Extreme Environments

Through a Deep Carbon Observatory collaboration, Adam Makhluf of the University of California, Los Angeles’s Earth, Space and Planetary Science Department and Chris Tulk of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Chemical and Engineering Materials Division are using neutrons to study the fundamental role carbon dioxide plays in Earth’s carbon cycle, especially in the composition of carbon reservoirs in the deep earth and the evolution of the carbon cycle over time.

Filling in the Nuclear Data Gaps

Lee Bernstein will lead the renewed Nuclear Data Group to solve common problems for a broad group of stakeholders in the nuclear energy, security, and medical fields at DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

Scientists Bear Witness to Birth of an Ice Cloud

Scientists have witnessed the birth of atmospheric ice clouds, creating ice cloud crystals in the laboratory and then taking images of the process through a microscope, essentially documenting the very first steps of cloud formation.

New Leaf Study Sheds Light on ‘Shady’ Past

A new study led by a research scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) highlights a literally shady practice in plant science that has in some cases underestimated plants’ rate of growth and photosynthesis, among other traits.

Jerry Tuskan: Bringing Technological Advances to Bioscience

It’s been 10 years since the Department of Energy first established a BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and researcher Gerald “Jerry” Tuskan has used that time and the lab’s and center’s resources and tools to make good on his college dreams of using genomics to study and improve plant species.

Warming Could Slow Upslope Migration of Trees

Research conducted by scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), UC Merced, the U.S. Geological Survey, UC Berkeley, and the University of Colorado at Boulder shows some subalpine trees may have trouble gaining a foothold above the tree line.