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Argonne a Top Place to Work for Postdocs in 2013

For the third year in a row, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is one of the 10 best places to work as a postdoctoral researcher, according to The Scientist magazine’s annual survey.

INCITE Program Accepting Proposals for Time on its Leadership-Class Supercomputers

Some of the toughest challenges in science and engineering to be addressed through total awards of more than five billion-core hours.

Energy Department Announces Prizes for 2013 National Science Bowl

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the prizes for which middle and high school teams from across the nation will compete at this year’s National Science Bowl, held from April 25 to April 29 in Washington, D.C.

Battery Research at NSLS Aims to Solve Energy Storage Challenges

The next big frontier for battery technology is efficient, grid-scale storage. Experiments to exploit the properties of single-use alkaline batteries for large-scale batteries could lead to the next energy revolution and provide safe storage for immense amounts of power.

DOE Announces Five-Year Renewal of Funding for Bioenergy Research Centers

Centers will receive $25 million per year for innovative biofuel research.

First Data Released from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

Office of Science-supported mission provides precise measurements of cosmic rays.

Brookhaven Science Associates Names Doon Gibbs Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory

The Board of Directors of Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) today named Interim Laboratory Director Doon Gibbs as the next Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, effective immediately

Making Do with More: Joint BioEnergy Institute Researchers Engineer Plant Cell Walls to Boost Sugar Yields for Biofuels

Using the tools of synthetic biology, JBEI researchers are engineering healthy plants whose lignocellulosic biomass can more easily be broken down into simple sugars for the production of clean, green and renewable advanced biofuels.

NOvA neutrino detector records first 3-D particle tracks

Using the first completed section of the NOvA neutrino detector, scientists have begun collecting data from cosmic rays—particles produced by a constant rain of atomic nuclei falling on the Earth’s atmosphere from space .

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory achieves milestone, completing first part of heart of fusion experiment

Engineers and technicians at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have completed a crucial stage of the $94 million upgrade of the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), the Laboratory’s major fusion project.

Fake Shewanella reveals how bacteria breathe iron

Electrons conduct through bacterial proteins directly to minerals containing iron.

Berkeley Lab Researchers Use Metamaterials to Observe Giant Photonic Spin Hall Effect

Engineering a unique metamaterial of gold nanoantennas, Berkeley Lab researchers were able to obtain the strongest signal yet of the photonic spin Hall effect, an optical phenomenon of quantum mechanics that could play a prominent role in the future of computing.