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Unraveling the Complex, Intertwined Electron Phases in a Superconductor

A team led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cornell University has characterized a key arrangement of electrons in a high-temperature superconductor, a material that can conduct electricity with almost no energy loss without being ultra-chilled.

Keys to Access: Argonne-INCREASE Partnership Opens Doors to Collaboration

U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory is working to connect minority serving institutions with the facilities, tools and expertise at the lab by partnering with the Interdisciplinary Consortium for Research and Education and Access in Science and Engineering (INCREASE).

Seeking Better Biofuels

Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a bustling hub of 150 scientists and staff, are working with the basics of plant biology to make fuels with molecules that have never been fuels before.

Departments of Agriculture, Energy Partner to Award $4.9 Million for Bioenergy Research

The investment is part of the Obama Administration’s initiative to broaden and diversify America’s energy portfolio and increase the development of new clean energy technologies and enhance rural economies.

California 2100: More Frequent and More Severe Droughts and Floods Likely

A study published in Nature Communications suggests that the weather patterns known as El Nino and La Nina could lead to at least a doubling of extreme droughts and floods in California later this century.

Exciting Breakthrough in 2D Lasers

Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) embedded a monolayer of tungsten disulfide into a special microdisk resonator to achieve bright excitonic lasing at visible light wavelengths.

Studies Reveal a Unified Approach to Combating Several Bacterial Diseases

Researchers at the University of Texas, the University of Connecticut, and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered structural similarities among bacteria of various types that create the possibility of using similar approaches to fight the infections they cause.

‘Molecular Accordion’ Drives Thermoelectric Behavior in Promising Material

A team of scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory explored the fundamental physics of the world’s best thermoelectric material—tin selenide—using neutron scattering and computer simulations.

Solvents Save Steps in Solar Cell Manufacturing

In a collaboration between ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) and the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)—both DOE Office of Science User Facilities—a team of neutron and materials scientists studied the structure of BHJ films to find a way to manufacture them more easily.

Brookhaven Postdoc’s Path to Research

Robert Palomino is one of Brookhaven Lab’s new postdocs working at the Lab’s new National Synchrotron Light Source II to study the structure and other properties of catalysts. Learn more about his path to his research career.

Laser Focus

At the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, researchers use the supercomputer Titan to create large-scale 3-D physics simulations to understand how a tumor-killing laser’s high-energy fields can rip matter apart.

The Difference a Day (or Night) Makes

In a study, PNNL scientists Young-Mo Kim, Jim Fredrickson, and Tom Metz demonstrated the effect that sunlight, or the absence of it, has over a 24-hour period on the production of chemicals used as metabolites in the microbial mats of Mushroom Springs in Yellowstone National Park.