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New Details of Molecular Machinery that Builds Plant Cell Wall Components

A new biochemical genetics study at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory reveals how a membrane protein within plant cells serves as a scaffold to organize three key enzymes involved in building the cell's exterior support.

Students from Massachusetts and Washington Win DOE’s 28th National Science Bowl®

Successful competition highlights the importance of investing in the next generation of leaders in science.

X-Ray Scientists Create Tiny, Super-Thin Sheets of Flowing Water that Shimmer Like Soap Bubbles

The liquid sheets – less than 100 water molecules thick – will let researchers probe chemical, physical and biological processes, and even the nature of water itself, in a way they could never do before.

UEC Profile: Jiwen Fan and the Enduring Allure of Deep Convection and Severe Storms

Jiwen Fan is an inspired investigator of severe storms, as well as an ascendant expert in modeling cloud-aerosol interactions at the process scale. Such interactions remain the largest uncertainty in models designed to simulate future earth system conditions.

Faces of Summit: Serving up Software

The installation of a new supercomputer demands the expertise of individuals with diverse knowledge sets. As projects evolve, diverge, and grow, they require a special kind of talent to fit certain pieces together. When it comes to scientific codes and software, they require someone who knows computers and science—someone like Mark Berrill, a computational scientist in the Scientific Computing Group (SciComp) at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF).

Cracking the Catalytic Code

Argonne’s chemists are finding ways to more cheaply and efficiently manufacture products derived from shale gas deposits and are identifying new routes to make higher-performance catalysts.

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Unusual Magnetic Structure May Support Next-Generation Technology

A research team from Colorado State University are using neutrons to study a material with an unusual magnetic structure. This research could both enhance their team’s fundamental understanding of frustrated magnetism and lead to improvements in digital information storage.

Finals of the 28th National Science Bowl® Begin Today

This weekend, 65 high school teams and 48 middle school teams will be competing in Finals of the 2018 National Science Bowl. Keep checking back for updates and results of your favorite teams.

Nanoparticle Breakthrough Could Capture Unseen Light for Solar Energy Conversion

An international team, led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has demonstrated a breakthrough in the design and function of nanoparticles that could make solar panels more efficient by converting light usually missed by solar cells into usable energy.

Strained Materials Make Cooler Superconductors

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have added a new dimension to our understanding of why straining a particular group of materials, called Ruddlesden-Popper oxides, tampers with their superconducting properties.

Going with the Hypersonic Flow

Argonne scientists are helping to solve the challenge of hypersonic flight by unraveling the complexities of combustion, which will propel aircraft to those speeds.

U.S. Department of Energy Funding Opportunity Opens Doors for Graduate Students

Since its inception in 2014, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program has been a source of world-class opportunities for up-and-coming researchers. It has funded over 300 graduate awardees from more than 100 universities to conduct thesis research at 17 DOE national laboratories.