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Q&A with CFN User Vinod Menon

Using the optical spectroscopy and microscopy capabilities at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), City College of New York Professor Menon studies light-matter interaction at extremely small scales.

Big Bang – The Movie

Argonne National Laboratory has collaborated with the University of Illinois, teaming up two supercomputers to perform simulation and data analysis of extremely large-scale, computationally intensive models of the universe.

Balloons and Drones and Clouds; Oh, My!

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories flew a tethered balloon and an unmanned aerial system, colloquially known as a drone, together for the first time to get Arctic atmospheric temperatures with better location control than ever before.

Out of the Classroom and Into the Laboratory

Widening Horizons for High Schoolers with Code

Last month, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory hosted a five-day Coding Camp for more than two dozen high school juniors and seniors, teaching new programming skills and how computer science is an integral part of an Argonne researcher’s life.

DOE User Facilities Partner for Greater Scientific Impact

Two Department of Energy user facilities, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), have selected 14 proposals from a joint call for 2018 research under the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative.

Mindy Clark: Sowing the Seeds for Scientific Breakthroughs

Mindy Clark’s enthusiasm for plant biology has only grown from her time in the classroom at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) to her years working in greenhouse operations for private industry and more recently at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The Wonderland of ALICE: Q&A with Thomas M. Cormier

In 2013, Thomas came to ORNL from Wayne State University, where he held a joint appointment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to head the Large Hadron Collider Heavy Ion Group and lead the design, development and deployment of future U.S. instrumentation for ALICE.

MARCUS Means a Rolling, Rich Science Look at the Southern Ocean

Scientists Create ‘Diamond Rain’ That Forms in the Interior of Icy Giant Planets

Kathryn Hastie Wins Spicer Award for Lassa Virus Work at SLAC’s X-ray Synchrotron

Nanotechnology Moves from the Clean Room to the Classroom