Niyanth Sridharan: Asking the Right Questions
Niyanth Sridharan grew up in a family that indulged his questions by using real-world examples to explain scientific concepts. That natural curiosity still drives the materials researcher today as he explores additive manufacturing techniques at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Read more about Niyanth Sridharan: Asking the Right QuestionsPhysicists Propose New Way to Stabilize Next-Generation Fusion Plasmas
Recent experiments have revealed evidence confirming that losses of up to 40 percent of high-energy particles are observed in experiments when many Alfvén waves are excited by deuterium beam ions used to simulate alpha particles and higher-energy beam ions in a fusion reactor.
Read more about Physicists Propose New Way to Stabilize Next-Generation Fusion PlasmasTeam Led by Graduate Student at PPPL Produces Unique Simulation of Magnetic Reconnection
Jonathan Ng, a Princeton University graduate student at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has for the first time applied a fluid simulation to the space plasma process behind solar flares northern lights and space storms.
Read more about Team Led by Graduate Student at PPPL Produces Unique Simulation of Magnetic ReconnectionArgonne Efforts Accelerate 3-D Printing Journey
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, and Missouri University of Science and Technology are investigating the entire 3-D printing process, including the material properties of the metal powders and how the laser “melts” and shapes those powders into the desired components, to discover both how defects form and methods to avoid them.
Read more about Argonne Efforts Accelerate 3-D Printing JourneyArjun Shankar: Advancing National Missions Through Smart Data
Arjun Shankar, a computer scientist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, works at the intersection of these missions, bridging domain researchers and data scientists to transform big data into smart data in order to accelerate scientific discovery.
Read more about Arjun Shankar: Advancing National Missions Through Smart DataBrookhaven Lab Says Goodbye to its 2017 Summer Interns, Future Leaders
On August 10, 2017, nearly 250 students studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields completed their summer internships at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Read more about Brookhaven Lab Says Goodbye to its 2017 Summer Interns, Future LeadersDigital Autodidact
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is testing a ‘deep-learning supercomputer in a box’ as it looks ahead to machines that automatically find insights in data.
Read more about Digital AutodidactScientists Fine-Tune System to Create ‘Syngas’ from CO2
Scientists have developed a new recipe for creating synthesis gas mixtures, or syngas, that involves adding a pinch of copper atoms sprinkled atop a gold surface.
Read more about Scientists Fine-Tune System to Create ‘Syngas’ from CO2X-ray Footprinting Solves Mystery of Metal-Breathing Protein
A team of scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered the details of an unconventional coupling between a bacterial protein and a mineral that allows the bacterium to breathe when oxygen is not available.
Read more about X-ray Footprinting Solves Mystery of Metal-Breathing ProteinPPPL Physicists Essential to New Campaign on World’s Most Powerful Stellarator
Physicists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are providing critical expertise for the first full campaign of the world’s largest and most powerful stellarator, a magnetic confinement fusion experiment, the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) in Germany.
Read more about PPPL Physicists Essential to New Campaign on World’s Most Powerful StellaratorScientists Bring Visual ‘Magic’ to Light
Scientists from mixed reality technology company Magic Leap Inc., working with researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have developed new, versatile ways to control and enhance the light-bending properties of synthetic optical nanostructures.
Read more about Scientists Bring Visual ‘Magic’ to LightDiscovery Suggests New Significance of Unheralded Chemical Reactions
A type of chemical reaction originally thought to be of little practical importance when hypothesized nearly a century ago may actually constitute major chemical pathways in the interaction of different gases, potentially offering new insights into engine dynamics and even the atmospheres of different planets.
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