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Decoding Virus-Host Interactions in the Oxygen-Starved Ocean

In a first of its kind study, exploiting the unique strength of single-cell genomics, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and collaborators at the University of Arizona and the University of British Columbia explored virus-host dynamics to reveal that viruses appear to be much more key to marine microbial ecology below sunlit surface waters than suspected.

Imaging Fuel Injectors with Neutrons

A team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is attempting to make the first-ever neutron images of cavitation, the physical event that leads to bubble/gas formation, inside the body of a gasoline fuel injector.

Advanced Light Source Sets Microscopy Record

Berkeley Lab researchers achieve highest resolution ever with x-ray microscopy.

Angling Chromium to Let Oxygen Through

New semiconducting material created at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory works at temperatures low enough to improve fuel cell efficiency.

New Catalyst Converts CO₂to Fuel

Calculations run at NERSC help confirm University of Illinois breakthrough.

A Metallic Alloy That is Tough and Ductile at Cryogenic Temperatures

Researchers at Berkeley and Oak Ridge Labs test a multi-element high-entropy alloy with surprising results.

Scientists Map Protein in Living Bacterial Cells

Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have for the first time mapped the atomic structure of a protein within a living cell. The technique, which peered into cells with an X-ray laser, could allow scientists to explore some components of living cells as never before.

Birth of a Mineral

Led by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a study shows calcium carbonate takes multiple, simultaneous roads to different minerals, provides insight into trapping carbon dioxide underground.

Electron Microscopes Take First Measurements of Nanoscale Chemistry in Action

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory along with colleagues at the University of Manchester, captured the world’s first real-time images and simultaneous chemical analysis of nanostructures while “underwater,” or in solution.

Titania-Based Material Holds Promise as New Insulator for Superconductors

Research from North Carolina State University shows that a type of modified titania, or titanium dioxide, holds promise as an electrical insulator for superconducting magnets, allowing heat to dissipate while preserving the electrical paths along which current flows.

New Synthesis Method May Shape Future of Nanostructures, Clean Energy

A team of University of Maryland physicists has published new nanoscience advances that they and other scientists say make possible new nanostructures and nanotechnologies with huge potential applications ranging from clean energy and quantum computing advances to new sensor development.

Airlock-like Transport Protein Structure Discovered

New work from a team led by the Stanford University School of Medicine’s Liang Feng and including Carnegie’s Wolf Frommer has for the first time elucidated the atomic structures of the prototype of the sugar transporters (termed “SWEET” transporters) in plants and humans.