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Research led by PPPL provides reassurance that heat flux will be manageable in ITER

New findings from an international team led by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) indicate that the width of the heat flux in ITER could be well within the capacity of the divertor plates to tolerate.

Turbocharging engine design

For the first time, Argonne’s scientists and engineers pinpointed engine designs for a given fuel using the Mira supercomputer at the heart of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, reducing design time from months to weeks.

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Bringing Diversity into Computational Science Through Student Outreach

Students from underrepresented groups joined Brookhaven Lab's Computational Science Initiative this summer to perform data science research.

Quantum Computation to Tackle Fundamental Science Problems

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will receive funding from DOE to continue to explore a drastically different kind of computing architecture based on quantum mechanics to solve some of science’s hardest problems.

What's NEXT for NSLS-II? Five New, World-class Beamlines

Brookhaven National Laboratory has reached the official and successful completion of the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) Experimental Tools (NEXT) project, which coordinated the development and construction of five new beamlines (experimental stations) for NSLS-II.

BESC caps biofuels research legacy with license of custom microbe to Enchi Corporation

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) mark the culmination of 10 years’ research into ways to improve biofuels production with the licensing to Enchi Corporation of a microbe custom-designed to produce ethanol efficiently.

ALCF supercomputers help address LHC’s growing computing needs

A team is exploring the use of supercomputers at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, to help meet CERN’s Large Hadron Collider’s growing computing demands.

High Importance in the Heavens: The Enduring Challenge of Representing Clouds

With modeling in mind, one cloud microphysicist at University of Oklahoma has gone far afield to research the properties and processes of Earth’s elusive cloud cover.

DOE Office of Science Update and FY 2018 Budget Request to Congress

DOE Office of Science Acting Director Steve Binkley provides an Office of Science Update at the September 27, 2017 ASCAC Meeting.

Cartography of the Cosmos

There are hundreds of billions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy, interspersed with all manner of matter, from the dark to the sublime. This is the universe that Argonne researcher Salman Habib is trying to reconstruct, structure by structure, combining telescope surveys with next-generation data analysis and simulation techniques currently being primed for exascale computing.

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With Extra Sugar, Leaves Get Fat Too

A Brookhaven Lab research team tipped the balance of plant metabolism to increase oil content in leaves with aim of making biofuels and related useful chemicals.

Researchers Develop a Way to Better Predict Corrosion from Crude Oil

Using X-ray techniques, scientists at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are developing an analysis tool that can more accurately predict how sulfur compounds in a batch of crude oil might corrode equipment– an important safety issue for the oil industry.