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The Department of Energy Invites Nominations for the 2015 Ernest Orlando Lawrence and Enrico Fermi Awards

Nominations for the 2015 Ernest Orlando Lawrence and Enrico Fermi Awards are being accepted until June 15, 2015.

Champions in Science Whose Stars Are Still Rising: Profile of Jason Tumlinson, National Science Bowl Champion 1992

For the run up to the 2015 National Science Bowl Finals April 30th to May 4th, this is the second of five profiles on previous National Science Bowl competitors and champions.

Scientists Track Ultrafast Creation of a Catalyst with X-ray Laser

Chemical transformations driven by light provide key insight to steps in solar-energy conversion.

Champions in Science Whose Stars Are Still Rising: Profile of Steven Sivek, National Science Bowl Champion 2002

For the run up to the 2015 National Science Bowl Finals April 30th to May 4th, this story is the first of five profiles on previous National Science Bowl competitors and champions.

Researchers created nanopores in graphene (red, and enlarged in the circle to highlight its honeycomb structure) that are stabilized with silicon atoms (yellow) and showed their porous membrane could desalinate seawater.

Demonstrating Desalination with Nanoporous Graphene Membrane

A team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated an energy-efficient desalination technology that uses a porous membrane made of strong, slim graphene—a carbon honeycomb one atom thick.

Graphene ‘Gateway’ Discovery Opens Possibilities for Improved Energy Technologies

Selective molecular membrane was discovered by a collaboration of scientists at ORNL’s Fluid Reactions, Structures and Transport Energy Frontier Research Center, including researchers at Northwestern, Penn State and the University of Minnesota.

Lighting a Star and Controlling Its Bursts

Scientists at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and General Atomics make breakthrough in understanding how to control intense heat bursts in fusion experiments.

Atomic Layer Deposition: Precise Control Smaller Than the Eye Can See

Scientists at several of DOE’s Energy Frontier Research Centers are creating coatings for energy generation and storage by building materials one atomic layer at a time.

Dr. Steven Ashby Named Director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Ashby has served as PNNL's Deputy Director for Science and Technology since 2008 and was selected following a highly competitive national search.

Advancing Accelerator Science Using Supercomputing

Experts at Argonne’s Leadership Computing Facility have teamed up with physicists at Fermilab to create more accurate and more reliable models of collisions within the world’s highest-intensity particle beams.

Giant Virus Revealed in 3-D Using X-ray Laser

Experiment at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) compiles hundreds of images, reveals inner details of intact ‘mimivirus’.

Bacterial Armor Holds Clues for Self-Assembling Nanostructures

Berkeley Lab study reveals key details in formation of S-layer nanosheets.