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Two Steps Ahead: Neutrons Help Explore Future HIV Treatments

University of Pennsylvania researcher Kushol Gupta is using the Bio-SANS instrument at ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor to study the defense mechanisms of HIV in hopes of improving antiviral drug applications.

Department of Energy Announces $8 Million for Particle Accelerators for Science & Society

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $8 million in funding for 12 research awards on a range of topics in both basic and use-inspired research in particle accelerator science and technology.

Getting a Charge Out of MOFs

A team led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley has developed a technique for making an electrically conductive MOF that could also be used to improve the conductivity of other MOFs.

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Meet Jasmine Hatcher and Trishelle Copeland-Johnson

Graduate students reflect on launching their research careers at national laboratories.

Novel X-Ray Optics Boost Imaging Capabilities at NSLS-II

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new approach to 3-D x-ray imaging that can visualize bulky materials in great detail—an impossible task with conventional imaging methods. The novel technique could help scientists unlock clues about the structural information of countless materials, from batteries to biological systems.

Undergraduate Students Extoll Benefits of National Laboratory Research Internships in Fusion and Plasma Science

On August 15, a cohort of undergraduate students who had participated in the Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) and Community College Internship (CCI) programs presented the results of the plasma physics work they had completed since their internships began on June 11, in projects touching on computer science, mechanical engineering, and artificial intelligence.

Infrared Beams Show Cell Types in a Different Light

By shining highly focused infrared light on living cells, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) hope to unmask individual cell identities, and to diagnose whether the cells are diseased or healthy.

Students Affected by Hurricane Maria Bring their Research to SLAC

This summer, five graduate students from the University of Puerto Rico had the opportunity to use SLAC’s world-class facilities to keep their studies on track.

Cultivating the Next Generation of Atmospheric Scientists

Twenty-four graduate students and early career scientists from around the world visited ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory during a rigorous weeklong training program in Oklahoma. The program focused on theoretical and practical work on the application of ground-based observations from a wide array of active and passive sensors.

Ecosystems Are Getting Greener in the Arctic

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley used satellite images taken over the past 30 years to track – down to a pixel representing approximately 25 square miles – the ebb and flow of plant growth in cold areas of the northern hemisphere, such as Alaska, the Arctic region of Canada, and the Tibetan Plateau.

Potent Bacteria

A collaboration that includes scientists from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has discovered that the bacteria performs this feat by confining the toxic compound to the equivalent of a molecular dungeon.

From Great Prairie to Gigabytes: Sequencing the Genomes of a Microbial Ecosystem

Scientists are studying microbes in the Great Prairie of the American Midwest to understand the role these tiny organisms play in its ecology and productivity.