The Big Move is Finished … And The Big Experiment Will Begin
After a 35-day, 3,200 mile journey, the Muon g-2 electromagnet arrived safely at Fermilab. Now for the installation, and then the science.
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Scientists Look to Next Decades in U.S. Particle Physics
From the output of an ongoing meeting, U.S. particle physicists – including experts from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science – will chart a path to answering some of science’s most intriguing questions.
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Winners of the Ten-Hundred and One Word Challenge Contest
The Ten Hundred and One Word Challenge invited the 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to represent their science in images, cartoons, photos, words and original paintings, but any descriptions or words could only use the 1000 most commonly used words in the English language, with the addition of one word important to each of the EFRCs and the mission of DOE: energy.
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Discovery through Teamwork
By coordinating capabilities across institutions, DOE Bioenergy Research Center scientists identify a powerful new microbe for biofuel processing.
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Dog Days and “Dark Matter”
Researchers led by the Joint Genome Institute illuminate a vast new world of undiscovered microbes.
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Microorganisms Found in Salt Flats Could Offer New Path to Green Hydrogen Fuel
Researchers at Argonne Lab turn to ancient microorganisms to use sunlight in a new way.
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Discovery of Rare Decay Narrows Space for New Physics
After a quarter of a century of searching, physicists have discovered a rare particle decay that gives them an indirect way to test models of new physics.
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Massive Muon Ring Moves Up the Mighty Mississippi
Fifty-foot-wide electromagnet is on a 3,200 mile journey to its new home at Fermilab.
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Imaging Electron Pairing in a Simple Magnetic Superconductor
Findings and resulting theory could reveal mechanism behind zero-energy-loss current-carrying capability.
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Successful Test of New U.S. Magnet Puts Large Hadron Collider on Track for Major Upgrade
U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories – including Berkeley Lab - collaborate to build the new magnets CERN needs to increase LHC luminosity by an order of magnitude.
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Department of Energy Lab Field Study Will Sample Aerosols from Biomass Burning
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), working with colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), will conduct a field campaign this summer and fall in the skies over the Pacific Northwest and Tennessee to measure the evolution of aerosols in wildfires and prescribed agriculture burns, respectively.
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Office of Science Labs Win 18 “Oscars of Innovation”
Outstanding innovations named R&D 100 Awardees.
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