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An Invitation for Family Fun at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab’s Open House on June 1

The Office of Science’s Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (PPPL) Open House will be a fun science festival for every age, with NASA moon rocks, a Hall of Machines, an art show of paintings of PPPL, science activities for kids and tours of fusion machines.

Little Drop Goes a Long Way in Studying Microbial and Atmospheric Reactions

New technique developed by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has potential to make a big splash.

Nomination Deadlines for the Fermi and Lawrence Awards Extended Until July 8, 2013

The Office of Science is accepting nominations for the 2013 Enrico Fermi and E. O. Lawrence Awards through July 8, 2013.

Mathematics of Popping Bubbles in a Foam

Berkeley Lab researchers solved the complex and widely-applicable equations in a matter of days instead of almost a year thanks to the supercomputers at DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center.

Berkeley Lab’s Aydın Buluç Wins 2013 DOE Early Career Award

Aydın Buluç of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Computational Research Division (CRD) has been honored with a 2013 Department of Energy’s (DOE) Early Career Award for his work on energy-efficient parallel graph and data mining algorithms.

Revolutionary Experiment Begins Massive Move to Study Muons

Brookhaven Lab and Fermilab are moving a 50-foot-wide ring 3,200 miles in order to open new possibilities in particle physics.

DOE’s Office of Science Announces 61 Scientists to Receive Early Career Research Program Funding

Program provides support to exceptional researchers.

ESP Via Mathematics in Uncertainty Quantification

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Lab are turning ambiguity into accuracy.

New Dark Matter Detector Begins Search for Invisible Particles

Scientists this week heard their first pops in an experiment that searches for signs of dark matter in the form of tiny bubbles.

Brookhaven Lab's Gianluigi De Geronimo Named a Battelle 'Inventor of the Year'

Honored for designing microelectronics used in science experiments, tools for national security and medical imaging.

Does Antimatter Fall Up or Down?

Berkeley Lab physicists and their colleagues in CERN’s ALPHA experiment present the first direct evidence of how atoms of antimatter interact with gravity.

Fermilab Welcomes New Additions to its ‘Particle Zoo’

See photos of the three baby bison that have joined the herd at the Office of Science lab.