Scientists Make the First Molecular Movie of One of Nature’s Most Widely Used Light Sensors
Scientists have made the first molecular movie of the instant when light hits a sensor that's widely used in nature for probing the environment and harvesting energy from light.
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Meet Daniel Cacace: Designer of Subsystems for sPHENIX Detector
As a full-time Lab employee, Cacace is designing subsystems for the sPHENIX detector, including hadronic calorimeters, intermediate silicone strip trackers, and electromagnetic calorimeters. Each of these subsystems will detect and track particles produced in collisions at RHIC, and allow nuclear physicists to explore details of the quark-gluon plasma created in these collisions.
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Tripling the Energy Storage of Lithium-Ion Batteries
A collaboration led by scientists at the University of Maryland (UMD), the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the U.S. Army Research Lab have developed and studied a new cathode material that could triple the energy density of lithium-ion battery electrodes. Their research was published on June 13 in Nature Communications.
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SLAC, Stanford Scientists Discover How a Hardy Microbe’s Crystalline Shell Helps it Reel in Food
Tiny pores in the shells of archaea microbes attract ammonium ions that are their sole source of energy, allowing them to thrive where this food is so scarce that scientists can’t even detect it.
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From Moon Rocks to Space Dust: Berkeley Lab’s Extraterrestrial Research
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers participated in a study focusing on the chemical composition of tiny glassy grains of interplanetary particles – likely deposited in Earth’s upper atmosphere by comets – that contain dust leftover from the formative period of our solar system.
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Taming Tornadoes at the Nanoscale
Scientists at the University of Notre Dame, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, and the Center for Nanoscale Materials have developed a new dynamic system that enables in situ adjustments of vortex filaments, thereby directly altering the properties of a superconducting material.
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Perspectives on 10 Years of Discovery With Fermi
Ten years ago, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (then called GLAST) was launched into space, beginning its mission to explore the most energetic light in the universe and the powerful cosmic processes that produce it.
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There’s a New Microscope in Town: ThemIS, Anyone?
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) now have access to a unique new microscope that combines atomic-scale imaging capabilities with the ability to observe real-world sample properties and behavior in real time.
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Robust MOF Material Exhibits Selective, Fully Reversible and Repeatable Capture of Toxic Atmospheric Gas
Led by the University of Manchester, an international team of scientists has developed a metal-organic framework material (MOF) that exhibits a selective, fully reversible and repeatable capability to remove nitrogen dioxide gas from the atmosphere in ambient conditions.
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Work Begins on New SLAC Facility for Revolutionary Accelerator Science
The Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has started to assemble a new facility for revolutionary accelerator technologies that could make future accelerators 100 to 1,000 times smaller and boost their capabilities.
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40 Years of Basic Energy Sciences at the Department of Energy
New report highlights outstanding examples of major scientific accomplishments emerging from 40 years of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) research.
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Faces of Summit: Succeeding by Leading
OLCF program director and project director for Summit, Buddy Bland has spent countless hours communicating and problem-solving with the system’s various stakeholders, including ORNL, DOE, and technology vendors IBM and NVIDIA, among others.
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