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Jefferson Lab Accelerator Upgrade Completed: Initial Operations Set to Begin While Experimental Equipment Upgrades Continue

The Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (“Jefferson Lab”) has just received formal approval from DOE to begin initial operations of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) as part of its ongoing $338 million upgrade.

Eco-friendly ‘Pre-fab Nanoparticles’ Could Revolutionize Nano Manufacturing

A team of materials chemists, polymer scientists, device physicists and others at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today report a breakthrough technique for controlling molecular assembly of nanoparticles over multiple length scales that should allow faster, cheaper, more ecologically friendly manufacture of organic photovoltaics and other electronic devices.

NERSC Launches Next-Generation Code Optimization Effort

NERSC, Intel, Cray team up to prepare users for transition to exascale computing.

Water’s Reaction with Metal Oxides Opens Doors for Researchers

In a paper published recently in the journal Nature Communications, Manos Mavrikakis, professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his collaborators report fundamental discoveries about how water reacts with metal oxides.

Catching Chemistry in Motion

Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have developed a laser-timing system that could allow scientists to take snapshots of electrons zipping around atoms and molecules.

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Rapid Warming of the Atlantic is Source of Recent Pacific Climate Trends

UH Mānoa climate scientists have partnered with Australian colleagues to solve a puzzle that has challenged scientists for over a decade.

Enhancing Biofuel Yields from Biomass with Novel New Method

UC Riverside engineers develop versatile platform technology to produce biofuels more efficiently.

Bottling Up Sound Waves

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a technique for generating acoustic bottles in open air that can bend the paths of sound waves along prescribed convex trajectories.

Carnegie Mellon Sheds Light on "Brown" Carbon's Role in Warming the Planet

A team of researchers led by Carnegie Mellon University with scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Montana have uncovered key attributes of so-called "brown carbon," atmospheric particles that play an important role in warming the atmosphere but are poorly understood.

Chemists Develop MRI Technique for Peeking Inside Battery-like Devices

A team of chemists from New York University and the University of Cambridge has developed a method for examining the inner workings of battery-like devices called supercapacitors, which can be charged up extremely quickly and can deliver high electrical power.

Light Pulses Control Graphene’s Electrical Behavior

Finding by MIT researchers could allow ultrafast switching of conduction, and possibly lead to new broadband light sensors.

Indiana University Chemists Demonstrate 'bricks-and-mortar' Assembly of New Molecular Structures

This development has potential value for the field of organic electronic devices such as field-effect transistors and photovoltaic cells.