2018 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

The U. S. Department of Energy Announces $34 Million for Small Business Research and Development Grants

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced that the Department of Energy will award 219 grants totaling $34 million to 183 small businesses in 41 states. Funded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, today’s selections are for Phase I research and development.

Teaming Up to Help Solve Complex Problems in Biology

Brookhaven Lab software engineer Arfath Pasha is part of a collaborative multi-lab project focused on advancing our knowledge of plants and microbes to optimize sustainable energy production and improve the environment.

Delegation from the House Science Committee visits Fermilab

On May 12, a delegation from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology visited the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, touring R&D facilities and discussing the laboratory’s flagship neutrino research program.

X-ray Laser Reveals Ultrafast Dance of Liquid Water

An international team led by researchers at Stockholm University probed the movements of molecules in liquid water that occur in less than 100 millionths of a billionth of a second, or femtoseconds, in experiments with the Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Scientists Turn X-ray Laser Into World’s Fastest Water Heater

Experiments at SLAC heated water from room temperature to 100,000 degrees Celsius in less than a millionth of a millionth of a second, producing an exotic state of water that could shed light on Earth’s most important liquid.

Centuries-old Foundry Process Finds New High-Tech Use

Researchers from Virginia Tech University are using neutrons at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to study cast aluminum lattice structures produced at lower cost by using 3D printed sand molds combined with traditional foundry melting and pouring techniques.

Living Large: Exploration of Diverse Bacteria Signals Big Advance for Gene Function Prediction

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), including researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), have developed a workflow that enables large-scale, genome-wide assays of gene importance across many conditions.

Steven Cowley Named Director of DOE’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Steven Cowley, a theoretical physicist and international authority on fusion energy, has been named director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), effective July 1.

Producing Beneficial Propylene While Consuming a Major Greenhouse Gas

Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a catalyst for the reaction of carbon dioxide and propane that could help meet the demand for an important chemical building block used to manufacture plastics, textiles, electronics, and more.

Made in the USA: Department of Energy Labs Help Advance Technology to Ensure Supply of Key Medical Isotopes

In February 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first Mo-99 that is domestically produced without the use of highly enriched uranium (HEU). Wisconsin-based NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes will produce Mo-99 in Missouri using a neutron-capture process that does not rely on the use of any uranium, but rather, stable molybdenum target material. Until recently, foreign vendors supplied 100 percent of the parent isotope, which was mostly produced using HEU.

PPPL Physicists to Create New X-ray Diagnostics for the WEST Fusion Device in France

A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has won a DOE Office of Science award to develop new X-ray diagnostics for WEST — the Tungsten (W) Environment in Steady-state Tokamak — in Cadarache, France.

Quark Matter 2018: Nuclear Physicists Gather to Discuss Fundamental Particle Interactions

Nuclear physicists from around the world seeking to understand the intricate details of the building blocks of visible matter are meeting in Venice, Italy, May 13-19, to discuss the latest results and theoretical interpretations of data from the world’s premiere collider facilities.