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).
MSU scientists have a new proof of concept for a biofuel production platform that uses two species of marine algae and soil fungi. It lowers cultivation and harvesting costs and increases productivity, factors that currently hold back biofuels from being widely adopted.
Scientists improve our understanding of the relationship between fundamental forces by re-creating the earliest moments of the universe.
Water molecules line up tiny particles to attach and form minerals; understanding how this happens impacts energy extraction and storage along with waste disposal.
First direct measurement show how heavy particles containing a charm quark get caught up in the flow of early universe particle soup.
New detector enables electron microscope imaging at record-breaking resolution.
New method can make films of atomically thin carbon that are over a foot long.
U.S. and Korean scientists show how to find and use beneficial 3-D field perturbations to stabilize dangerous edge-localized modes in plasma.
A new approach to atom probe tomography promises more precise and accurate measurements vital to semiconductors used in computers, lasers, detectors, and more.
Scientists can now measure 3-D structures of tiny particles with properties that hold promise for advanced sensors and diagnostics.
Particle flow patterns suggest even small-scale collisions create drops of early universe quark-gluon plasma.
Scientists uncover a way to control terahertz radiation using tiny engineered particles in a magnetic field, potentially opening the doors for better medical and environmental sensors.
Efficient generation of photon pairs from modified carbon nanotubes shows path to new types of light sources.
Laboratory automation applied to complex radiochemical isolation of astatine-211 from cyclotron-bombarded targets.
Comparing new prediction to measurements of muons’ precession could potentially help scientists discover new subatomic particles.
One of the world’s most powerful x-ray machines offers scientists studying insects a unique resource to see inside of them. Using the Advanced Photon Source, researchers can watch and record how insects’ internal mechanisms work in real-time.
CMS observes Higgs boson decays into bottom quarks, furthering our knowledge of how the particles that make up matter behave.
New direct evidence for Higgs interactions with top and bottom quarks confirms its role in generating mass for constituents of matter.
Collaborative, open-source software and data platform accelerates systems biology research.
The element’s unusual electron structure and behavior are vital to understanding and exploiting the chemical bonding and reactivity of the heavy elements.
Research offers new insights for maximizing sugar production in biofuel crops.
Model predicts smaller decrease in total corn yields than previous estimates.
Researchers developed a new self-generating lubricant with great potential for industrial applications.
Crests of watery waves breaking in oil may be the gatekeepers to transport vital chemicals in industrial separation process.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $8 million in funding for 12 research awards on a range of topics in both basic and use-inspired research in particle accelerator science and technology.
Charged particles emanating from Jupiter’s magnetosphere are powered up to create the northern and southern lights on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.
The American Midwest’s Great Prairie is one of the country’s most important ecological systems and its soil microbes are essential to the carbon cycle. The Great Prairie Metagenome Grand Challenge is sequencing the genes of microbial communities to better understand their ecological role.
In magnetic confinement fusion devices known as tokamaks, the maximum operational density limits the efficiency and now we know how this limit may be overcome.
The Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs issued its first Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Fiscal Year 2019.
Enabling beams to respond to plasma conditions in real time allows scientists to avoid instabilities and raise performance.
New technique allows the spatiotemporal control of laser intensity, potentially changing the way laser-based accelerators are optimized.
Collaboration powers machine learning software that performs data analytics on petabyte-sized data sets in series of successful test runs.
Systems biology leads the way to exascale computing on Summit supercomputer.
The first-ever computation of an atomic nucleus, the deuteron, on a quantum chip demonstrates that even today’s rudimentary quantum computers can solve nuclear physics questions.
Proton-irradiated thorium targets are successfully mined for therapeutic radium isotopes.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced $10 million in funding for 13 projects that will enhance sophisticated computer models for understanding weather and climate patterns.
Quantum computers work in a fundamentally different way than classical computers. Computer scientists need to start from scratch when creating algorithms for them to run. Three teams from the Department of Energy’s laboratories are developing the foundations for new computer languages and programs.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced funding for research that will take advantage of new and emerging capabilities to probe materials and chemical processes at time scales of a quadrillionth of a second or less.
Scientists add active control to design capabilities for new lightweight flat optical devices.
Researchers design self-assembling nanosheets that mimic the surface of cells.
The Department of Energy has developed a new computer simulation capability: the Energy Exascale Earth System Model. Scientists designed the model to focus on areas most relevant to energy production as well as take full advantage of DOE’s supercomputing systems.
The U.S. Department of Energy officially launched the Lab Partnering Service (LPS), an on-line, single access point platform for investors, innovators, and institutions to identify, locate, and obtain information from DOE’s 17 national laboratories.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $75 million in funding for 77 university research awards on a range of topics in high energy physics to advance knowledge of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced $100 million in funding for 42 Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to strengthen U.S. economic leadership and energy security.
Scientists obtain the first exclusive measurement of deeply virtual Compton scattering of electrons off helium-4, vital to obtaining an unambiguous 3-D view of quarks and gluons within nuclei.
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