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Atomic Movie of Melting Gold Could Help Design Materials for Future Fusion Reactors

SLAC’s high-speed ‘electron camera’ shows for the first time the coexistence of solid and liquid in laser-heated gold, providing new clues for designing materials that can withstand extreme conditions.

ALCF Selects Data and Learning Projects for Aurora Early Science Program

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility, has selected 10 data science and machine learning projects for its Aurora Early Science Program (ESP). Set to be the nation’s first exascale system upon its expected 2021 arrival, Aurora will be capable of performing a quintillion calculations per second.

Separate But Together: Ultrathin Membrane Both Isolates and Couples Living and Non-Living Catalysts

Bioelectrochemical systems combine the best of both worlds – microbial cells with inorganic materials – to make fuels and other energy-rich chemicals with unrivaled efficiency. Yet technical difficulties have kept them impractical anywhere but in a lab. Now researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a novel nanoscale membrane that could address these issues and pave the way for commercial scale-up.

Reproducibility Matters

An international team led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, and the Joint Genome Institute report on the results of a large-scale field study, scaling up from 500 to 5,000 samples, that partially replicates earlier trials to identify soil microbes that colonize plants and which can be associated with particular traits.

Student Interns Dive into Plasma in One-week Course

PPPL launched about 60 student interns into a summer of research by hosting an intensive one-week course in plasma physics the week of June 11. The students, including 32 students in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program, attended lectures by experts at PPPL and from institutions around the country.

UEC Profile: Combining Models With Observations, Andrew Gettelman Puzzles Out Cloud-Aerosol Interactions

Andrew Gettelman, a scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, serves on several satellite science teams and evaluates models through data analysis linked to both satellite and field programs.

Cellular Energy Crisis

An Arizona State University scientist mines supercomputer simulations of protein dynamics for biological energy-conversion principles.

ORNL’s Summit Supercomputer Named World’s Fastest

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is once again officially home to the fastest supercomputer in the world, according to the TOP500 List, a semiannual ranking of the world’s fastest computing systems.

Uncovering a Missing Link from Methane to Methanol

Scientists at Northwestern University and Argonne Lab have demonstrated a new way to activate methane with MOFs, potentially transforming it into something more valuable.

ORNL Researchers Use AI to Improve Mammogram Interpretation

In an effort to reduce errors in the analyses of diagnostic images by health professionals, a team of researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has improved understanding of the cognitive processes involved in image interpretation.

Steady as She Flows

Aiming to boost aircraft safety, speed and fuel efficiency, engineers turn to Argonne’s Mira supercomputer to study supersonic turbulence.

Scientists Create Continuously Emitting Microlasers With Nanoparticle-Coated Beads

An international team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found a way to convert nanoparticle-coated microscopic beads into lasers smaller than red blood cells.