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The Stories Behind the Science: How Does the Ocean’s Saltiness Affect Tropical Storms?

How two researchers discovered that the factors behind storms’ strength are more complex than scientists previously thought.

Scientists Forge Ahead with Electron Microscopy to Build Quantum Materials Atom by Atom

A novel technique that nudges single atoms to switch places within an atomically thin material could bring scientists another step closer to realizing theoretical physicist Richard Feynman’s vision of building tiny machines from the atom up.

The sample chamber of the Soft Inelastic X-ray Scattering (SIX) beamline at NSLS-II

New NSLS-II Beamline Illuminates Electronic Structures

On July 15, 2018, the Soft Inelastic X-ray Scattering (SIX) beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory—welcomed its first visiting researchers. SIX is an experimental station designed to measure the electronic properties of solid materials using ultrabright x-rays. The materials can be as small as a few microns—one millionth of a meter.

Michael Papka (left) help lead Argonne’s first Big Data and Visualization Camp over the summer. He taught these high schoolers the importance of extracting useful information from an increasingly vast sea of numerical data. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

The Graphic Nature of Data

Argonne scientists inspired high schoolers to think big about data and how to visualize it at a three-day camp this summer.

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OLCF computational scientist Wayne Joubert

Mixed Precision: A Strategy for New Science Opportunities

Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility computational scientist Wayne Joubert explores numerical precision to accelerate scientific discovery.

How Drought and Other Extremes Impact Water Pollution

Q&A with Berkeley Lab hydrological science expert Bhavna Arora, who explains how unseasonably warm weather and drought can affect water quality.

Argonne to Advance High Performance Computing in Manufacturing

The High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) Program, operated by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), leverages world-class technical expertise with high performance computing to tackle manufacturing challenges uniquely solved by computer modeling. DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory and industry partners were recently awarded funding for four of the 13 projects under the program.

Image - The atmospheric haze of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon (pictured here along Saturn’s midsection), is captured in this natural-color image (box at left). A new study, which involved X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source, has revealed new clues that may help to unravel the formation of this haze. (Credits: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Science Institute, Caltech)

Scientists Present New Clues to Cut Through the Mystery of Titan’s Atmospheric Haze

A research collaboration involving scientists in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has zeroed in on a low-temperature chemical mechanism that may have driven the formation of multiple-ringed molecules – the precursors to more complex chemistry now found in the moon’s brown-orange haze layer.

Blyttiomyces helicus on spruce pollen grain. (Joyce Longcore)

Expanding Fungal Diversity, One Cell at a Time

A team led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has developed a pipeline to generate genomes from single cells of uncultivated fungi.

HP-CONCORD Paves the Way for Scalable Machine Learning in HPC

A team of Berkeley Lab researchers has demonstrated how a new parallel algorithm called HP-CONCORD can help address some of the most challenging problems in data-driven science.

Jun Li, Mark Palmer, Yimei Zhu, Jing Tao, Mikhail Fedurin, Christina Swinson, and Junjie Li

Making a Movie of Nanocrystals' Structural Evolution

Combined ultrafast snapshots suggest that the crystal symmetry of copper sulfide nanocrystals changes due to interactions between electrons and atoms vibrating in the crystal lattice—an understanding of which could help scientists optimize the functionality of superconductors, magnetic materials, and other strongly correlated systems.

gravitational wave signal (GW150914) detected by the LIGO observatories

ALCF Selects New Data Science Projects

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility, has selected four new projects to continue its ALCF Data Science Program (ADSP). These projects will utilize machine learning, deep learning, and other artificial intelligence (AI) methods to enable data-driven discoveries across scientific disciplines.