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Blazing Trails at Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)

New video gives an inside look at how scientists are using the CFN’s state-of-the-art facilities to explore phenomena hidden on the nanoscale.

When Electrons Cooperate

University of Illinois physicists apply supercomputing to explore unconventional, high-temperature superconductivity

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New Design Could Dramatically Boost Efficiency of Low-Cost Solar Panels

X-ray studies at SLAC's synchrotron pave the way for better methods to convert sunlight to electricity

Zooming In: From Global to Regional Climate Models

As part of an ongoing study at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, a research team from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago is using supercomputing resources to investigate the effectiveness of dynamically downscaled climate models.

The MiSIng Piece Revealed: Classifying Microbial Species in the Genomics Era

A team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility and their collaborators developed and evaluated a new method for classifying microbial species that could be supplemented – as needed – by traditional approaches relied on by microbiologists for decades.

Neutrons Find “Missing” Magnetism of Plutonium

Groundbreaking work at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge national laboratories has confirmed plutonium’s magnetism, which scientists have long theorized but have never been able to experimentally observe.

Radiation Safety for Sunken-Ship Archaeology

Berkeley Lab researchers help scientists determine the radiation risk of exploring an underwater aircraft carrier.

Fermilab’s Flagship Accelerator Sets World Record

Fermilab's Main Injector accelerator, one of the most powerful particle accelerators in the world, has just achieved a world record for high-energy beams for neutrino experiments.

Sensitive and Specific: A New Way of Probing Electrolyte/Electrode Interfaces

Berkeley Lab researchers’ novel diffraction spectroscopy technique will provide insight to chemical processes at important battery interface.

Energy Secretary Moniz to Bestow Ernest Orlando Lawrence Awards on July 23rd

To attend the ceremony, please RSVP by Friday, July 17th.

Unlocking Lignin for Sustainable Biofuel

Using high-performance computing, a group of researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have provided insight into unraveling the tightly wound network of molecules that make up plant cell walls, and transforming them into more affordable biofuels.

Up, Up, and Away!

This summer, researchers are launching an unprecedented number of weather balloons in rural Oklahoma to collect data to help improve how weather and climate models predict the diurnal cycle of rainfall and cloud development.