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A Look Inside Argonne’s Center for Nanoscale Materials

New video gives inside look at user facility dedicated to bringing out the great potential of materials at minuscule scales.

A Map Made in the Heavens

Scientists pair precise observations with incredible computing power to create an astonishingly accurate map of the universe.

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Plastic Proteins and New Possibilities for Insight

Berkeley Lab’s Peppytides, interactive models of polypeptide chains, offer new ways to understand nature’s essential machines.

Harvesting the Sun’s Energy Through Heat as Well as Light

New approach developed at MIT could generate power from sunlight efficiently and on demand.

Eleven Teams Win Regional National Science Bowl Competitions, Secure Spots in National Finals in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today announced that 11 teams of middle and high school students won their regional competitions for the 2014 National Science Bowl this past weekend and are advancing to the National Finals in Washington, D.C., in April.

ORNL Study Advances Quest for Better Superconducting Materials

Nearly 30 years after the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, many questions remain, but an Oak Ridge National Laboratory team is providing insight that could lead to better superconductors.

Vehicle Design Innovator Local Motors Signs CRADA with ORNL to Enable the Rapid Design and Manufacturing of Vehicles Through Direct Digital Manufacturing

PHOENIX — Local Motors, Inc. announces a groundbreaking new partnership with the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Local Motors will work with the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at ORNL to develop and deliver technology to produce the world’s first production 3D printed vehicle.

Greenwald, Starkman and Cane Win Top Communications Award From CASE

Three members of the communications team at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab recognized for outstanding work by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.

Cooling Microprocessors with Carbon Nanotubes

Technique from Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry could also work with graphene.

Two Teams Win Regional National Science Bowl Competitions, Secure Spots in National Finals in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today announced that two teams of students — one middle school and one high school — won their regional competitions for the 2014 National Science Bowl this past weekend and are advancing to the National Finals in Washington, D.C., in April.

Highly Efficient Broadband Terahertz Radiation from Metamaterials

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have demonstrated broadband terahertz (THz) wave generation using metamaterials. The discovery may help develop noninvasive imaging and sensing, and make possible THz-speed information communication, processing and storage.

Welcome to the DarkSide: Project Aims to Find Particles of Dark Matter

In a laboratory under a mountain 80 miles east of Rome this fall, a Princeton-led international team switched on a new experiment aimed at finding a mysterious substance that makes up a quarter of the universe but has never been seen.