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Brookhaven Lab Hosts "Brookathon," a Five-Day GPU Hackathon

From June 5 through 9, Brookhaven Lab's Computational Science Initiative hosted "Brookathon"—a hackathon (a combination of the words "hack" and "marathon" that describes the nonstop and exploratory nature of the programming event) focused on graphics processing units (GPUs).

SLAC’s Electron Hub Gets New ‘Metro Map’ for World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser

The central hub for powerful electron beams at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is getting a makeover to prepare for the installation of LCLS-II – a major upgrade to the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world’s first hard X-ray free-electron laser.

Neutrons Detect Elusive Higgs Amplitude Mode in Quantum Material

A team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has used sophisticated neutron scattering techniques to detect an elusive quantum state known as the Higgs amplitude mode in a two-dimensional material.

Electron Orbitals May Hold Key to Unifying Concept of High-Temperature Superconductivity

A team of scientists has found evidence for a new type of electron pairing that may broaden the search for new high-temperature superconductors.

Science Happens at the Border of Different Disciplines

Under the FICUS initiative, researchers leverage capabilities and resources across the Department of Energy user facilities such as the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory and the Joint Genome Institute in pursuit of a single, overarching research goal that cannot be achieved with the capabilities at a single facility.

Scientists Get First Direct Look at How Electrons ‘Dance’ with Vibrating Atoms

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have made the first direct measurements, and by far the most precise ones, of how electrons move in sync with atomic vibrations rippling through an exotic material, as if they were dancing to the same beat.

PPPL Researchers Demonstrate First Hot Plasma Edge in a Fusion Facility

Recent experiments on the Lithium Tokamak Experiment (LTX), the first facility to fully surround plasma with liquid lithium, showed that lithium coatings can produce temperatures that stay constant all the way from the hot central core of the plasma to the normally cool outer edge.

A Whole-Genome Sequenced Rice Mutant Resource for the Study of Biofuel Feedstocks

A team led by Pamela Ronald, a professor in the Genome Center and the Department of Plant Pathology at UC Davis and director of Grass Genetics at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), with collaborators from UC Davis and the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), reported the first whole-genome sequenced fast-neutron induced mutant population of Kitaake, a model rice variety with a short life cycle.

Brookhaven Scientists Study Role of 'Electrolyte Gating' in Functional Oxide Materials

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a previously unknown mechanism involved in “electrolyte gating,” a method for increasing electrical conductivity in materials and potentially inducing superconductivity.

Argonne's Theta Supercomputer Goes Online

Theta, a new production supercomputer located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonnne National Laboratory is officially open to the research community. The new machine’s massively parallel, many-core architecture continues Argonne’s leadership computing program towards its future Aurora system.

New Studies of Ancient Concrete Could Teach Us to Do as the Romans Did

Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley experiments show how natural chemistry strengthened ancient concrete.

How Hot is Too Hot in Fusion?

Using the 27-petaflop Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a team of researchers based at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are predicting how ITER—the world’s largest experimental magnetic fusion reactor, currently under construction in France—will withstand the extreme heat involved in extracting exhaust.