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Department of Energy Provides $40 Million for 4 DOE Bioenergy Research Centers

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry today announced $40 million in Department of Energy awards for the establishment of four DOE Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs), which will provide the scientific breakthroughs for a new generation of sustainable, cost-effective bioproducts and bioenergy.

Mica Provides Clue to How Water Transports Minerals

In a new study from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with the University of Illinois and Chicago and the University of Delaware, chemists have been able to look at the interface between water and muscovite mica, a flat mineral commonly found in granite, soils and many sediments.

New Berkeley Lab Algorithms Extract 3-D Biological Structure From Limited Data

A team of researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has developed a new algorithmic framework that utilizes advanced mathematical techniques to determine 3-D molecular structure from very sparse sets of noisy, single-particle data, allowing them to extract more information from experiments with limited data.

Machine learning technique offers insight into plasma behavior

A researcher at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has applied machine learning to help stabilize the plasma within doughnut-shaped fusion devices known as tokamaks.

Tackling Disease in Three Dimensions

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are using supercomputers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to advance disease studies by enhancing our understanding of RNA, biological polymers that are fundamentally involved in health and disease.

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 July 13, 2017 BESAC Meeting.

Scientists See Molecules ‘Breathe’ in Remarkable Detail

In a milestone for studying a class of chemical reactions relevant to novel solar cells and memory storage devices, an international team of researchers working at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used an X-ray laser to watch “molecular breathing” – waves of subtle in-and-out motions of atoms – in real time and unprecedented detail.

2017 RHIC & AGS Annual Users' Meeting: From Protons to Heavy Ions, and Back Again

Scientists conducting research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS)—flagships in the collider-accelerator complex at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory—gathered to discuss highlights of nuclear physics research and related topics, as well as plans for the future, at the annual RHIC & AGS Users’ Meeting, June 20-23.

No Assembly Required: Nanoparticles that Put Themselves Together

Using self-assembly, scientists are coaxing tiny particles into making new, customized materials.

Scientists can now locate oxygen in the structure of catalysts with a precision of one-trillionth of a meter

A major new application of Dynamic Nuclear Polarization NMR technology at Ames Laboratory has led to the ability to examine the chemical structure of catalysts with a spatial resolution of less than a picometer, or one-trillionth of a meter.

Energy Department Awards New Contract to Manage and Operate SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry awarded a five-year, $1.73 billion new contract to Stanford University to manage and operate SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA. The award continues Stanford’s record as contractor for the management and operations (M&O) contract for the laboratory, which has been operated by the University since its founding in 1962.

Neutrons Aim at Improving Integrity in Dissimilar Metal Welds

At the HFIR user facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers are using the penetrating ability of neutrons to collect data and see what is happening inside welds of dissimilar materials to improve structural integrity.