2017 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

New Devices to Control X-rays are Less Expensive, Faster to Make

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a less expensive and more efficient way of controlling x-ray beams used to study the intricate details of batteries, solar cells, proteins and all manner of materials.

Updated Computer Code Improves Prediction of Energetic Particle Motion in Plasma Experiments

The computer code, developed by physicist Mario Podestà at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), is used by physicists around the world to analyze and predict tokamak experiments can now approximate the behavior of highly energetic atomic nuclei, or ions, in fusion plasmas more accurately than ever.

Scientists Find New Method to Control Electronic Properties of Nanocrystals

Researchers from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Stony Brook University, and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered new effects of an important method for modulating semiconductors.

Defining Standards for Genomes from Uncultivated Microorganisms

An international team led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has developed standards for the minimum metadata to be supplied with single amplified genomes (SAGs) and metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) submitted to public databases.

Former SULI Student Wins Fulbright Award for Research on W7-X

Alexandra LeViness, a former Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) student who will join Princeton University’s graduate program in plasma physics in 2018, has won a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to do research at the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany.

Tara Pandya: Visualizing the Future of Nuclear Energy

Oak Ridge National Lab researcher Tara Pandya develops Monte Carlo and Deterministic radiation transport codes as a computational nuclear engineer in the lab’s Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division.

Big Data Meets Big Healthcare for Veterans

Argonne’s extensive track record of successes with big data and big computers make it the quintessential partner of this multi-faceted research team to improve healthcare for millions of veterans, advance supercomputing and solve some of the nation’s biggest scientific challenges.

MicroBooNE Produces Clearest Images of Neutrino Interactions Yet

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory contributed to the design of a U.S.-based international collaboration studying “ghost-like” fundamental particles called neutrinos at an experiment known as MicroBooNE which has produced the clearest images of neutrino interactions yet.

"Monkey Wrench" Molecule Jams Tuberculosis Protein

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory were part of a recent discovery of a new molecule called an inhibitor that attacks tuberculosis-causing bacteria by cutting off its production of a chemical necessary for its survival.

Anthony Walker: Modeling the Natural World

ORNL terrestrial ecosystem modeler Anthony Walker has tackled a variety of tasks since arriving at Oak Ridge National Laboratory 4 years ago, including leading an international group of scientists exploring how forests respond to elevated levels of carbon dioxide (CO2).

Interdisciplinary Team Designs Gas Flow Cell to Analyze Catalytic Behavior

With the help of other researchers from ORNL and Colorado State University, Daniel Olds and Katharine Page developed a U-tube gas flow cell to study catalysts and better understand how they facilitate chemical reactions.

World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector Finds Big Physics Fingerprint

After more than a year of operation at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the COHERENT experiment, using the world’s smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of the elusive, electrically neutral particles that interact only weakly with matter.