Lynn Orr, undersecretary for science and energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), spoke at MIT Thursday about the department’s newly issued Quadrennial Technology Review, which sums up the top priorities for research over the next four years.
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A team of researchers, led by Gaute Hagen of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and includes two Michigan State University nuclear physicists – Morten Hjorth-Jensen and Witold Nazarewicz – has uncovered some of the mysteries of the nucleus of the atom.
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Scientists at UCLA have used a powerful microscope to image the three-dimensional positions of individual atoms to a precision of 19 trillionths of a meter, which is several times smaller than a hydrogen atom.
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Researchers at Brandeis University use Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source to help discover how Gleevec successfully battles cancer.
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For the first time, Brandeis University researchers have observed and recorded each step of how the enzyme adenylate kinase (ADK), catalyzes the transfer of energy in our cells.
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A research team led by the University of Chicago’s Dmitri Talapin has demonstrated how semiconductors can be soldered and still deliver good electronic performance.
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Researchers at the University of Michigan contruct a new semiconductor that moves spintronics toward reality.
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Grant will help find the most efficient way to produce polymers, the chemical compounds that are used to make everything from building materials in spacecraft to laptops and medicines.
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Dislocations in oxides seen as promising electrolytes create a “traffic jam” for charged ions.
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A University of Cincinnati research partnership is reporting advances on how to one day make solar cells stronger, lighter, more flexible and less expensive when compared with the current silicon or germanium technology on the market.
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A University of Arizona led collaboration of physicists and chemists has discovered that temperature behaves in strange and unexpected ways in graphene.
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Physicists at Yale University have observed a new form of quantum friction that could serve as a basis for robust information storage in quantum computers in the future.
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