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Blyttiomyces helicus on spruce pollen grain. (Joyce Longcore)

Expanding Fungal Diversity, One Cell at a Time

A team led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has developed a pipeline to generate genomes from single cells of uncultivated fungi.

HP-CONCORD Paves the Way for Scalable Machine Learning in HPC

A team of Berkeley Lab researchers has demonstrated how a new parallel algorithm called HP-CONCORD can help address some of the most challenging problems in data-driven science.

Jun Li, Mark Palmer, Yimei Zhu, Jing Tao, Mikhail Fedurin, Christina Swinson, and Junjie Li

Making a Movie of Nanocrystals' Structural Evolution

Combined ultrafast snapshots suggest that the crystal symmetry of copper sulfide nanocrystals changes due to interactions between electrons and atoms vibrating in the crystal lattice—an understanding of which could help scientists optimize the functionality of superconductors, magnetic materials, and other strongly correlated systems.

gravitational wave signal (GW150914) detected by the LIGO observatories

ALCF Selects New Data Science Projects

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility, has selected four new projects to continue its ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP). These projects will utilize machine learning, deep learning, and other artificial intelligence (AI) methods to enable data-driven discoveries across scientific disciplines.

Courtney Schumacher lectures in a Texas A&M University classroom. Photo is courtesy of Schumacher.

UEC Profile: Postcards from the Clouds

One scientist, inspired early by world travel and the power of tropical storms, uses radar to investigate how large convective systems organize.

At the Heradura Playa in Atacama Desert of Chile. Alessandro Airo's team is interested in the Atacama's microbial communities. (Courtesy of A. Airo)

Preparing for a Sequence Data Deluge

Accepted 2019 JGI Community Science Program proposals requested terabases of sequence data. Over the summer, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, set an “institutional best” record by sequencing 20.4 trillion bases (Terabases or Tb) in a single month in Walnut Creek, California.

A schematic of the arrangement of the Se and Fe atoms is shown on the left

"Choosy" Electronic Correlations Dominate Metallic State of Iron Superconductor

Two families of high-temperature superconductors (HTS)—materials that can conduct electricity without energy loss at unusually high (but still quite cold) temperatures—may be more closely related than scientists originally thought.

Alex Romanenko prepares to cool superconducting accelerator cavities, the silver-colored objects, to convert it into a quantum device. Photo: Reidar Hahn

Quantum Leap

As part of the DOE Office of Science Quantum Information Science-Enabled Discovery (QuantISED) program, a consortium of three institutions under the leadership of Fermilab scientist Alexander Romanenko has been awarded $3.9 million over two years to further SRF technology for quantum science, potentially boosting the processing speed and storage capacity of quantum devices, including quantum computers and sensors.