The data system will allow for more detailed, consistent, and up-to-date global emissions trends that will aid in understanding aerosol effects.
To develop a future fusion reactor, scientists need to understand how and why plasma in fusion experiments moves into a “high-confinement mode” where particles and heat can’t escape. Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory simulated the transition into that mode starting from the most basic physics principles.
New insights into molecular-level processes could help prevent corrosion and improve catalytic conversion.
Scientists discover key types of microbes that degrade organic matter and release carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.
Researchers can precisely study how different genes affect key properties in a yeast used industrially to produce fuel and chemicals.
Identified genes involved in plant cell wall polysaccharide production and restructuring could aid in engineering bioenergy crops.
How yeast partition carbon into a metabolite may offer insights into boosting production for biofuels.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced it will award 189 grants totaling $33 million to 149 small businesses in 32 states.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide $16 million for new observational research aimed at improving the accuracy of today’s climate and earth system models.
A combined experimental and modeling approach contributes to understanding small proteins with potential use in industrial, therapeutic applications.
Artificial intelligence on Summit to discover atomic-scale structures.
New model provides more accurate estimates of how fast microbes produce a mercury-based neurotoxin.
Scientists explore how drought-tolerant plants communicate to nearby microorganisms, suggesting ways to engineer more resilient bioenergy crops.
Scientists determine the accuracy of computational methods used to study the sulfate radical approach to purifying water.
Ultrafine aerosol particles produce bigger storm clouds and more precipitation than larger aerosols in pristine conditions.
Scientists devise new approach that gathers data on the interplay between permafrost, soil, and vegetation.
Distortion of water droplet surface may increase the likelihood of the droplet freezing.
A new modeling framework helps understand the consequences of future sea-ice loss in the Arctic.
A new phenomena forms vortices that trap particles, impeding electron avalanches that harm fusion reactors.
Researchers discover how certain bacteria may safeguard plant growth during a drought, making way for strategies to improve crop productivity.
The mechanism responsible for creating intense magnetic fields in laser-driven plasmas also helps tear the fields apart.
Unexpected molecular interactions involving water clusters have a subtle, yet profound, effect on extractants picking their targets.
To understand how damage from high-energy X-rays affects imaging studies, scientists supported by the Department of Energy shot the most powerful X-ray laser in the world at a series of atoms and molecules. Surprisingly, the atoms within the molecules acted far differently than the isolated ones.
A promising catalyst may enable creating fuel from sunlight, but we first need to understand how it splits water. When Daniel Nocera and his team shed light on a key step in the complex process, they got more than they expected.
Advances in biochemistry and catalysis could lead to faster, greener nitrogen-rich fertilizer.
New method takes a snapshot every millisecond of groups of light-scattering particles, showing what happens during industrially relevant reactions.
A new platform melding microfluidics and robotics allows more in-depth bioanalysis with fewer cells than ever before.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $24 million in new and renewal research awards to advance the development of sophisticated software for computer-based design of novel materials.
How microbial communities adjust to nutrient-poor soils at the genomic and proteomic level gives scientists insights into land use.
Two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories were recently awarded the 2018 Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM’s) Gordon Bell Prize.
DOE researchers have won 32 of the R&D 100 awards given out this year by R&D Magazine. The annual awards are given in recognition of exceptional new products or processes that were developed and introduced into the marketplace during the previous year.
Analyses of natural communities forming soil crusts agree with laboratory studies of isolated microbe-metabolite relationships.
Evidence suggests that biorefineries can accept various feedstocks without negatively impacting the amount of ethanol produced per acre.
New, easily prepared starting material opens access to learning more about a difficult-to-control element in nuclear waste.
New design coats molecular components and dramatically improves stability under tough, oxidizing conditions.
A new chemical process converts a component of wasted wood pulp and other biomass into high-value pressure-sensitive adhesives.
Scientists revise understanding of the limits of bonding for very electron-rich heavy elements.
Measuring the physical properties of water at previously unexplored temperatures offers insights into one of the world’s essential liquids.
A large-scale soil project uncovered genetic information from bacteria with the capacity to make specialized molecules that could lead to new pharmaceuticals.
Mark Palmer, the director of the Department of Energy’s Accelerator Test Facility (ATF), adapts to challenging situations in the same way that the ATF can adapt to users’ needs. Researchers at the ATF work to make particle accelerators smaller, more powerful, and more cost-efficient.
Experimental warming treatments show how peatland forests may respond to future environmental change.
A trio of scientists was recognized for their early career successes in uncovering how microbes produce fuel, insights that could change our energy portfolio
Signaling mechanism details discovered, potentially leading to strategies to engineer plants that make more bio-oil.
Researchers demonstrated cryogen-free operation of a superconducting radio-frequency cavity that might ease barriers to its use in societal applications.
Two researchers with personal experience of hurricanes set out to investigate the role of an underestimated factor in storm’s strength – salinity. They found that salinity plays a larger role than anyone thought, including them.
New studies identify key molecular characteristics to potentially separate rare earth metals cleanly and efficiently with light.
Precise positioning of oxygens could help engineer faster, more efficient energy-relevant chemical transformations.
Magnetic reconnection causes space storms that can damage satellites and disrupt the grid. While it’s a common process in the universe, plasma physics researchers don’t fully understand why it occurs so abruptly and quickly. New research is supporting a theory that may hold the key.
Scientists unlock mystery that could help reduce emissions of fine particles from combustion engines and other sources.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $218 million in funding for 85 research awards in the important emerging field of Quantum Information Science (QIS).
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