News Archive

Texas Southern University Research Team Advances Safety, Efficiency at NSLS-II

This summer, two student interns and their professor from Texas Southern University (TSU) are making a significant impact on the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Young Scientists Show Off Hands-on Research Projects at PPPL

For Dhruvit Patel, a rising senior majoring in mechanical engineering and physics at Rutgers University, the 10 weeks he spent at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) were a welcome opportunity to do hands-on research.

New Results Reveal High Tunability of 2-D Material

Berkeley Lab-led team also provides most precise band gap measurement yet for hotly studied monolayer moly sulfide.

Guang Zhang’s Great Leap Forward in Understanding Deep Convection

Research meteorologist Guang Zhang solves convection puzzles at a bank of computers, integrating observational data with computer simulations that have predictive value, for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.

National Synchrotron Light Source II Celebrates Two Years of User Operations

In July of 2017, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory wished a happy second birthday to the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II). Located at Brookhaven, NSLS-II is a DOE Office of Science User Facility that provides ultra-bright x-rays for cutting-edge science research.

PPPL Physicist Discovers That Some Plasma Instabilities Can Extinguish Themselves

Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has for the first time used advanced models to accurately simulate key characteristics of the cyclic behavior of edge-localized modes (ELMs), a particular type of plasma instability.

Q&A with CFN User Vinod Menon

Using the optical spectroscopy and microscopy capabilities at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), City College of New York Professor Menon studies light-matter interaction at extremely small scales.

Big Bang – The Movie

Argonne National Laboratory has collaborated with the University of Illinois, teaming up two supercomputers to perform simulation and data analysis of extremely large-scale, computationally intensive models of the universe.

Balloons and Drones and Clouds; Oh, My!

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories flew a tethered balloon and an unmanned aerial system, colloquially known as a drone, together for the first time to get Arctic atmospheric temperatures with better location control than ever before.

Out of the Classroom and Into the Laboratory

Widening Horizons for High Schoolers with Code

Last month, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory hosted a five-day Coding Camp for more than two dozen high school juniors and seniors, teaching new programming skills and how computer science is an integral part of an Argonne researcher’s life.

DOE User Facilities Partner for Greater Scientific Impact

Two Department of Energy user facilities, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), have selected 14 proposals from a joint call for 2018 research under the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) initiative.