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Department of Energy Lab Field Study Will Sample Aerosols from Biomass Burning

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), working with colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), will conduct a field campaign this summer and fall in the skies over the Pacific Northwest and Tennessee to measure the evolution of aerosols in wildfires and prescribed agriculture burns, respectively.

New Mira Supercomputer Dedicated at Argonne National Laboratory

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) led the dedication of the new Mira supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory on Monday, underscoring the importance of high-performance computing to scientific research, industrial innovation and our nation’s economic future.

Tiny Nanocubes Help Scientists Tell Left from Right

New method could improve drug development, optical sensors and more.

Around the US in 17 Labs

Use symmetry’s interactive map to learn more about what goes on at the national laboratories, including the 10 institutions under the purview of the DOE Office of Science.

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Ames National Laboratory Scientists Solve Riddle of Strangely Behaving Magnetic Material

Materials scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames National Laboratory have found an accurate way to explain the magnetic properties of a compound that has mystified the scientific community for decades.

Nigel Lockyer of Canada’s TRIUMF Lab Named Fermilab Director

Nigel Lockyer, director of Canada’s TRIUMF laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of British Columbia, has been selected to become the next director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. A suite of new projects awaits Lockyer at Fermilab, which is America’s premier laboratory for particle physics research.

Scientists Combine X-rays and Microscopes for Precise Experiments

By pairing the capabilities of X-ray analysis and extremely precise microscopy, scientists at Argonne have developed a way to simultaneously determine the physical structure and chemical makeup of materials at close to the atomic level.

Discovery of New Material State Counterintuitive to Laws of Physics

When you squeeze something, it gets smaller. Unless you’re at Argonne National Laboratory.

Massive Particle Storage Ring to Begin 3,200-Mile Trek on Sunday

How do you move a 50-foot-wide, circular electromagnet from Long Island to the Chicago suburbs in one piece without flexing or twisting it? Very, very carefully.

Ames Laboratory Scientists Discover New Family of Quasicrystals

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory have discovered a new family of rare-earth quasicrystals using an algorithm they developed to help pinpoint them. Their research resulted in finding the only known magnetic rare earth icosahedral binary quasicrystals, now providing a “matched set” of magnetic quasicrystals and their closely related periodic cousins.

“Popcorn” Particle Pathways Promise Better Lithium-Ion Batteries

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have confirmed the particle-by-particle mechanism by which lithium ions move in and out of electrodes made of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4, or LFP), findings that could lead to better performance in lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles, medical equipment and aircraft.

Testing Artificial Photosynthesis

Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop Fully Integrated Microfluidic Test-bed for Solar-driven Electrochemical Energy Conversion Systems.