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Simulations Aimed at Safer Transport of Explosives

Researchers from the University of Utah are using supercomputing resources at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, to understanding better exactly how accidents involving transportation of explosives occur and can be an important step to learning how better to prevent them.

“Seeing” Hydrogen Atoms to Unveil Enzyme Catalysis

A multi-institutional research team led by Chris Dealwis from Case Western Reserve University has used the new IMAGINE instrument at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) to map an enzyme that could play an important role in anti-cancer drug development.

Discovering a Key to How Stars Transmit Energy

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine have been able to determine experimentally, for the first time in history, iron’s role in inhibiting energy transmission from the center of the sun to near the edge of its radiative band — the section of the solar interior between the sun’s core and outer convection zone.

2014's Top-10 Scientific Achievements at Brookhaven Lab

From new insights into the building blocks of matter to advances in understanding batteries, superconductors, and a protein that could help fight cancer, 2014 was a year of stunning successes for the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory.

The Quality of Light

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and The Pennsylvania State University are closely studying one of these photosynthetic species of fast-growing cyanobacteria using advanced tools developed at PNNL to determine the optimum environment that contributes to record growth and productivity.

Microscopy Reveals How Atom-High Steps Impede Oxidation of Metal Surfaces

A new study performed by a team led by Guangwen Zhou of Binghamton University, in collaboration with Peter Sutter of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory reveals that certain features of metal surfaces can stop the process of oxidation in its tracks.

Breakthrough in Predictions of Pressure-dependent Combustion Chemical Reactions

Researchers at Sandia and Argonne national laboratories have demonstrated, for the first time, a method to successfully predict pressure-dependent chemical reaction rates.

First Direct Evidence that a Mysterious Phase of Matter Competes with High-Temperature Superconductivity

SLAC study shows “pseudogap” phase hoards electrons that might otherwise conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency.

Ultrafast Imaging of Complex Systems in 3-D at Near Atomic Resolution Becoming Increasingly Possible

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory developed an extended Monte Carlo computational scheme that for the first time includes bound-bound resonant excitations that dramatically enhance ionization rates and can lead to an unexpectedly high degree of electron stripping

Simulations Aimed at Safer Transport of Explosives

“Seeing” Hydrogen Atoms to Unveil Enzyme Catalysis

Discovering a Key to How Stars Transmit Energy

2014's Top-10 Scientific Achievements at Brookhaven Lab

The Quality of Light

Microscopy Reveals How Atom-High Steps Impede Oxidation of Metal Surfaces

Breakthrough in Predictions of Pressure-dependent Combustion Chemical Reactions

First Direct Evidence that a Mysterious Phase of Matter Competes with High-Temperature Superconductivity

Ultrafast Imaging of Complex Systems in 3-D at Near Atomic Resolution Becoming Increasingly Possible

ORNL Microscopy Pencils Patterns in Polymers at the Nanoscale

Is the Higgs Boson a Piece of the Matter-Antimatter Puzzle?

Back to the Future with Roman Architectural Concrete

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