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

Crews at the Mayall Telescope near Tucson, Arizona, lift and install the top-end components for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI. The components, which include a stack of six lenses and other structures or positioning and support, weigh about 12 tons. DESI, scheduled to begin its sky survey next year, is designed to produce the largest 3-D map of the universe and produce new clues about the nature of dark energy. (Credit: David Sprayberry, NOAO/AURA)

Topping Off a Telescope with New Tools to Explore Dark Energy

Key components of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument are installed after months of planning, prep work

To Curb Maternal Deaths in Developing Countries, Researchers Use X-rays to Map a Lifesaving Drug in Action

New research will help in the quest to design low-cost drugs that can tackle postpartum bleeding and other conditions without severe side effects.

Matthew Ryder is researching next-generation materials using neutron scattering as a Clifford G. Shull Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Neutron Sciences Directorate. (Image credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin)

Matthew Ryder: Understanding the Stability of Next-Generation Materials

Scientists and engineers are always searching for ways to solve the world’s biggest challenges, such as reducing carbon emissions, creating more effective cancer treatments, and increasing energy efficiency in electronics.

Jennifer Armstrong in front of the G-1 aircraft

A New ARM Pilot Signs Up

Combat veteran, pilot, athlete, aircraft entrepreneur and executive Jennifer Armstrong is the first woman to fly ARM’s Gulfstream-159 research aircraft

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U.S. Department of Energy and Italy’s Ministry of Education, Universities, and Research to Collaborate on Particle Accelerator Construction

Agreement launches a multinational collaboration to build a powerful new accelerator at DOE’s Fermilab complex.

Using Hydrogen Ions to Manipulate Magnetism on the Molecular Scale

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has determined how to use hydrogen ions, “pumped” from water in the air at room temperature, to electrically control magnetism within a very thin sample of a magnetic material. This approach for manipulating magnetic properties could speed up advances in computing, sensors, and other technologies.

Brian Williams, Joseph Lukens, Pavel Lougovski, and Nicholas Peters (from left), research scientists with ORNL’s Quantum Information Science Group, have demonstrated two simultaneous operations on two qubits

Researchers Demonstrate New Building Block in Quantum Computing

Researchers with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a new level of control over photons encoded with quantum information.

Argonne Works to Preserve Birds, Aircraft and Cultural Heritage in South Korea

Argonne researchers discovered how to keep birds and pilots at a safe distance to avoid run-ins at air force bases.

The Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has reached its operational power design level by running a neutron production cycle at 1.4 megawatts.

Neutron Production at ORNL's SNS Reaches Design Power Level

The Spallation Neutron Source at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has broken a new record by ending its first neutron production cycle in fiscal year 2019 at its design power level of 1.4 megawatts.

The Future of Fighting Cancer: Zapping Tumors in Less than a Second

SLAC and Stanford researchers secure support for two projects that share one goal: to reduce the side effects of radiation therapy by vastly shrinking the length of a typical session.

FIONA is a new system at Berkeley Lab's 88-Inch-Cyclotron that enables direct mass number measurements of superheavy elements. (Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab)

FIONA Measures the Mass Number of 2 Superheavy Elements: Moscovium and Nihonium

First results from Berkeley Lab’s new tool confirm predicted measurements

Leah Broussard leads a study of neutron decay to understand correlations between electrons and antineutrinos as well as subtle distortions in the electron energy spectrum.

Leah Broussard: Breaking the Standard Model to Fix Understanding of the Universe

Leah Broussard, a physicist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has so much fun exploring the neutron that she alternates between calling it her “laboratory” and “playground” for understanding the universe.