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Energy Department to Award $100 Million for Energy Frontier Research Centers

Funding will help fuel innovative solutions toward next generation energy systems.

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Supercomputers Help Solve a 50-Year Homework Assignment

Calculation related to question of why the universe is made of matter.

Berkeley Lab Scientist Named MacArthur "Genius" Fellow

Physicist Carl Haber has turned techniques first developed for studying high-energy particles into technologies which will recover and restore some of the earliest recordings ever made.

Scientists Expand Search for Light Dark Matter

Physicists on the CDMS experiment have devised a better way to search for a particle that, if it exists, would revolutionize our ideas about dark matter.

Glass or Plastic?

Researchers at Georgia Tech, supported in part by the Office of Science, show that at tiny scales, the makeup of a container affects how fast the H2O flows.

Supercomputing the Transition from Ordinary to Extraordinary Forms of Matter

Calculations plus experimental data help map nuclear phase diagram, offering insight into transition that mimics formation of visible matter in universe today.

National Labs and Air Force Partner to Improve Aircraft Component Design

Working with national laboratories, universities and industry, the Air Force is ensuring it stays on the cutting edge of global security by creating a new engineering paradigm to improve the safety and fuel-efficiency of aircraft.

Proton's Weak Charge Determined for First Time

Research at Jefferson Lab reveals value of force that has a real impact on our everyday world.

Schedule Announced for Meetings and Submissions for Competing the Management and Operations Contract of Brookhaven Lab

Expressions of interest, informational meeting, request for proposals.

Argonne Radar Meteorologist Scott Collis named one of Popular Science’s ‘Brilliant 10’

An expert in radar and remote sensing at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility, Collis works to improve global climate models.

Toxic Methylmercury-Producing Microbes More Widespread Than Realized

Microbes that live in rice paddies, northern peat bogs and other previously unexpected environments are among the bacteria that can generate highly toxic methylmercury, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center have learned.