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Flowing Toward Red Blood Cell Breakthroughs

Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility users employ Titan to understand circulating tumor cells, sickle cell anemia, and drug delivery.

Understanding Nature, Accelerating Electrons, and Advancing Science

Profile of Fermi Award winner Claudio Pellegrini.

A Passionate Scientist, a Picosecond Pioneer and a Presidential Honoree

Profile of Fermi Award winner Chuck Shank.

ORNL Researchers Find ‘Greener’ Way to Assemble Materials for Solar Applications

Using three Office of Science User Facilities, scientists found a way to control the self-assembly of photovoltaic polymers with exquisite precision, using a detergent-like molecule as a template.

Hunting Cosmic Ghosts

Third in a series of profiles on the recipients of DOE’s Office of Science early career awards: Alysia Marino, a University of Colorado scientist who is spending her career tracking down neutrinos and learning their secrets.

Building Champions: National Science Bowl Offseason

Five-time National Science Bowl champion Mira Loma HS keeps an intense – and pizza fueled – training regimen through the summer and fall.

Seeing Quarks and Gluons Through Jets and Silhouettes

Second in a series of profiles on the recipients of DOE’s Office of Science early career awards: Ivan Vitev, a Los Alamos National Lab scientist who shows how the building blocks of matter are organized in Nature’s toy box.

Making 3D Objects Disappear

Berkeley Lab researchers create ultrathin invisibility cloak.

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Best Precision Yet for Neutrino Measurements at Daya Bay

By tracking the transformation of neutrinos, scientists hope to answer fundamental physics questions.

Catalysts on the Cusp of Coming Apart

First in a series of profiles on the recipients of DOE’s Office of Science early career awards: Theodore Betley, a Harvard University scientist who is catalyzing transformations for chemicals and students.

Tiny Drops of Early Universe 'Perfect' Fluid

First results from collisions of three-particle ions with gold nuclei reveal clear-cut evidence of primordial soup's signature particle flow.

Antimatter Catches a Wave at SLAC

Accelerating positrons with plasma is a step toward smaller and cheaper particle colliders.