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Another Advance on the Road to Spintronics

Berkeley Lab Researchers Unlock Ferromagnetic Secrets of Promising Materials.

Advanced Photon Source lights the way to 2012 Chemistry Nobel

ARGONNE, Ill. — Thanks in part to research performed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded today to Americans Brian Kobilka and Robert Lefkowitz for their work on G-protein-coupled receptors.

Adaptable Button Mushroom Serves Up Biomass-Degrading Genes Critical to Managing the Planet’s Carbon Stores

The button mushroom occupies a prominent place in our diet and in the grocery store where it boasts a tasty multibillion-dollar niche, while in nature, Agaricus bisporus is known to decay leaf matter on the forest floor. Now, owing to an international collaboration of two-dozen institutions led by the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), the full repertoire of A. bisporus genes has been determined.

Panofsky Prize Honors Researchers' Underground Hunt for Dark Matter

The search for dark matter runs deep with physicists Blas Cabrera and Bernard Sadoulet, who have chased this mystery far underground and will be recognized for their work as joint recipients of the 2013 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics.

Ames National Laboratory Finds Ordered Atoms in Glass Materials

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Ames National Laboratory have discovered the underlying order in metallic glasses, which may hold the key to the ability to create new high-tech alloys with specific properties.

Yearlong MAGIC Climate Study Launches

Climate instruments mounted aboard the Horizon Spirit container ship begin taking data.

Brookhaven Lab Astrophysicist Named One of Popular Science's "Brilliant 10"

How do you get named one of the 10 most exciting and innovative young scientists of the year? Start by pioneering a new way to map the cosmos, a thousand quasars at a time.

Crews Complete First Block of North America's Most Advanced Neutrino Experiment

Today, technicians in Minnesota will begin to position the first block of a detector that will be part of the largest, most advanced neutrino experiment in North America.

Closing in on the Border Between Primordial Plasma and Ordinary Matter

Energy scan at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals first signs of phase boundary.

Department of Energy Awards $62 Million in Contracts to Accelerate Development of 'Extreme Scale' Supercomputers

Under an initiative called FastForward, the Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have awarded $62 million in research and development (R&D) contracts to five leading companies in high performance computing to accelerate the development of next-generation supercomputers vital to national defense, scientific research, energy security, and the nation's economic competitiveness.

Latest Issue of Symmetry Released

The August issue features a voyage into the deep dark quantum sea, a few bits about the Big Data effort, and 'sightings' of the Higgs boson by Symmetry readers.

Agriculture and Energy Departments Announce New Investments to Drive Innovations in Biofuels and Biobased Products

Office of Science supports the effort through grants, expertise and advanced techniques.