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New Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute Announced

The Joint Global Change Research Institute has announced its new director will be Ghassem Asrar, who brings experience to the institute from the World Climate Research Programme, NASA, USDA and academia.

How Particle Physics Can Save Your Life

From new medicines to cancer treatment, the tools of particle physics play an important role in hospitals around the world.

Crafting a Better Enzyme Cocktail to Turn Plants into Fuel Faster

Scientists looking to create a potent blend of enzymes to transform materials like corn stalks and wood chips into fuels have developed a test that should turbocharge their efforts.

“Molecular Velcro” May Lead to Cost-Effective Alternatives to Natural Antibodies

Berkeley Lab researchers take cues from nature in designing a programmable nanomaterial for biosensing.

MAGIC Sea Voyage Ends, Journey to Decode Data Begins

Scientists participating in a mission to collect data critical to climate modeling from aboard an oceangoing cargo vessel have started sifting through the data to figure out what they can learn from the measurements they've taken.

First Results from LUX, the World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector

The Large Underground Xenon experiment is helping scientists test candidates for the elusive and mysterious material.

Auburn University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Announce Cyber-Security Partnership

Auburn University has announced a formal collaborative agreement between the university’s Cyber Initiative and Oak Ridge National Laboratory that will focus resources and expertise on security issues in the cyber domain.

Berkeley Lab Researchers Get a Detailed Look at a DNA Repair Protein in Action

Advanced research provides new insight into genome integrity and biological detection of mismatched DNA.

Canfield Receives American Physical Society David Adler Lectureship Award

Paul Canfield, scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University, has been selected by the American Physical Society for the 2014 David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics.

Grant Funds Development of Improved Nanoscale Additive Manufacturing

A new Department of Energy grant will fund research to advance an additive manufacturing technique for fabricating three-dimensional (3D) nanoscale structures from a variety of materials.

Weatherizing Homes to Uniform Standard Can Achieve $33 Billion in Annual Energy Savings

Berkeley Lab energy efficiency experts also calculate energy cost of upgrading ventilation.

Brookhaven Lab Helped Coax the Higgs Out of Hiding

There's good reason for Long Islanders to celebrate the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded last week to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert for their prediction of the Higgs particle and the mechanism by which it gives mass to the building blocks of our universe.