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Photo - Sally Shaw, a UC Santa Barbara postdoctoral researcher, stands beside a 12-foot-tall acrylic tank at a manufacturing site in Colorado. The tank was built for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter search experiment now under construction in Lead, South Dakota. (Credit: LZ Collaboration)

Acrylic Tanks Provide Clear Window Into Dark Matter Detection

Scientists have a new window into the search for dark matter – an acrylic vessel that features a grouping of 12-foot-tall transparent tanks with 1-inch-thick walls.

Daniel Bowring holds up a component for detecting dark matter particles called axions. Photo: Reidar Hahn

Fermilab Scientists to Look for Dark Matter Using Quantum Technology

Fermilab’s Aaron Chou is leading a multi-institutional consortium to apply the techniques of quantum metrology to the problem of detecting axion dark matter.

The more we know about how wind blows, the better we can harness the potential of wind energy. After four years of research, Argonne scientists and colleagues are helping to improve wind forecasting. (Image by Shutterstock / Dee Browning.)

Any Way the Wind Blows

Forecasting the wind for tomorrow is a daily challenge to wind farm operators in places like the Columbia River Gorge in the Pacific Northwest. To more accurately predict wind in complex terrain, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory partnered in a project called Wind Forecast Improvement Project II (WFIP 2).

Energy Secretary Perry Visits Ames National Laboratory

Energy Secretary Rick Perry made his first visit to the Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory on Tuesday where he toured the facilities, met with Laboratory leadership and scientists, and thanked staff for their work in materials research.

Missing Gamma-ray Blobs Shed New Light on Dark Matter, Cosmic Magnetism

Scientists, including researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, have compiled the most detailed catalog of extended gamma-ray sources using eight years of data collected with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope.

Scientists Forge Ahead with Electron Microscopy to Build Quantum Materials Atom by Atom

A novel technique that nudges single atoms to switch places within an atomically thin material could bring scientists another step closer to realizing theoretical physicist Richard Feynman’s vision of building tiny machines from the atom up.

The sample chamber of the Soft Inelastic X-ray Scattering (SIX) beamline at NSLS-II

New NSLS-II Beamline Illuminates Electronic Structures

On July 15, 2018, the Soft Inelastic X-ray Scattering (SIX) beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory—welcomed its first visiting researchers. SIX is an experimental station designed to measure the electronic properties of solid materials using ultrabright x-rays. The materials can be as small as a few microns—one millionth of a meter.

Michael Papka (left) help lead Argonne’s first Big Data and Visualization Camp over the summer. He taught these high schoolers the importance of extracting useful information from an increasingly vast sea of numerical data. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

The Graphic Nature of Data

Argonne scientists inspired high schoolers to think big about data and how to visualize it at a three-day camp this summer.

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OLCF computational scientist Wayne Joubert

Mixed Precision: A Strategy for New Science Opportunities

Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility computational scientist Wayne Joubert explores numerical precision to accelerate scientific discovery.

How Drought and Other Extremes Impact Water Pollution

Q&A with Berkeley Lab hydrological science expert Bhavna Arora, who explains how unseasonably warm weather and drought can affect water quality.

Argonne to Advance High Performance Computing in Manufacturing

The High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) Program, operated by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), leverages world-class technical expertise with high performance computing to tackle manufacturing challenges uniquely solved by computer modeling. DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory and industry partners were recently awarded funding for four of the 13 projects under the program.

Image - The atmospheric haze of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon (pictured here along Saturn’s midsection), is captured in this natural-color image (box at left). A new study, which involved X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source, has revealed new clues that may help to unravel the formation of this haze. (Credits: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Science Institute, Caltech)

Scientists Present New Clues to Cut Through the Mystery of Titan’s Atmospheric Haze

A research collaboration involving scientists in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has zeroed in on a low-temperature chemical mechanism that may have driven the formation of multiple-ringed molecules – the precursors to more complex chemistry now found in the moon’s brown-orange haze layer.