Latest News

• share
• favorite_border

This is the first in series of five planned profiles on past National Science Bowl competitors.

• share
• favorite_border

Multiple plausible hypotheses in how maximum photosynthetic rates scale across the Earth lead to substantial variability in predicting carbon uptake.

• share
• favorite_border

The DOE’s Office of Science is supporting research and facilities that improve the fundamental understanding of chemistry and physics essential to these technologies. Research into nanoparticles, two-dimensional materials, and metal-organic frameworks is setting the foundation for sensors that are cheaper, more efficient, and more sensitive than current technologies.

• share
• favorite_border

Exotic material exhibits an optical response in enormous disproportion to the stimulus -- larger than in any known crystal.

• share
• favorite_border

Flexible, tunable technique warms plants without need for electricity, aiding ecosystem research in remote locales.

• share
• favorite_border

Chemical genomic-guided engineering of gamma-valerolactone-tolerant yeast.

• share
• favorite_border

Certain species of trees retain stored water, limit root growth to survive three months without water.

• share
• favorite_border

Intuitive visual analytical model better explains complex architectural scenarios and offers general design principles.

• share
• favorite_border

High-performance computing reveals the relationship between DNA and phosphorous uptake.

• share
• favorite_border

Supercomputer simulations predict how E. coli adapts to environmental stresses.

• share
• favorite_border

Researchers bring extreme conditions to a supercomputer and discover new insights about our solar system and beyond.

• share
• favorite_border

Toolkit lets scientists detect extreme weather in climate simulations far faster than before.

• share
• favorite_border

Americium(III) is selectively and efficiently separated from europium(III) by an extractant in an ionic liquid.

• share
• favorite_border

Electronic and structure richness arise from the merger of semiconducting molecules of carbon buckyballs and 2-D graphene.

• share
• favorite_border

Tracking atoms is crucial to improving the efficiency of next-generation perovskite solar cells.

• share
• favorite_border

Iron may be more valuable than platinum. Sometimes.

• share
• favorite_border

Global models may be underestimating net wetland methane emissions.

• share
• favorite_border

The geometric complexities uncovered provide insights into how these mini-organs get assembled, potentially of interest for fuel production.

• share
• favorite_border

The CUORE experiment set the tightest limits yet on the rare decay of tellurium-130, providing insights into the nature of neutrinos.

• share
• favorite_border

Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) will award 179 grants totaling $30 million to 149 small businesses in 36 states.

• share
• favorite_border

This research offers new information to understand the role of microorganisms in elemental cycling in the Arctic.

• share
• favorite_border

Defect-enhanced transport and complex phase growth are changing design rules for lithium-ion batteries.

• share
• favorite_border

Colossal magnetoresistance at terahertz frequencies in thin composites boosts novel memory devices operated at extremely high speed.

• share
• favorite_border

Neutrinos are the most abundant particles in the universe and could reveal insight into physics beyond the Standard Model. However, they’re incredibly difficult to detect. While most neutrino detectors are very large, two experiments supported by the Department of Energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are poised to demonstrate that even modest neutrino experiments can make big discoveries.

• share
• favorite_border

First known material capable of emitting single photons at room temperature and telecom wavelengths.

• share
• favorite_border

Day-night changes in light and temperature power a low-cost material assembly that mimics biological self-copying.

• share
• favorite_border

Engineers develop wires that penetrate neurons and measure their activity

• share
• favorite_border

Gel uses nanoparticles for on-demand control of droplet shapes, of interest for energy storage and catalysis.

• share
• favorite_border

Current generated when light hits a material reveals electrons behaving like an elusive particle.

• share
• favorite_border

Tiny cages can trap and release inert argon gas atoms, allowing their further study and providing a new way to capture rare gases.

• share
• favorite_border

Simulations discovered the first molecule with three extra electrons and extraordinary stability.

• share
• favorite_border

Unprecedented characterization of subsurface electronic states could lead to better semiconductors and seeing new interactions.

• share
• favorite_border

Multiple techniques to characterize an enzyme complex shed light on how bacteria create particles and contribute to global cycles.

• share
• favorite_border

This is one in a series of profiles on directors of the SC-stewarded user facilities. This profile features Sergei Nagaitsev, director of the Fermilab Accelerator Complex.

• share
• favorite_border

Study shows how aerosols interacting with clouds can be accurately captured by sparse set of representative particles.

• share
• favorite_border

Without fungi, dead trees wouldn’t decay. The short-order cooks of the natural world, certain types of fungi can decompose plant cell walls and deposit carbon back in the soil. Scientists supported by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science are investigating these processes and how we may be able to use them to make biofuels production cheaper and more efficient.

• share
• favorite_border

Where does the heat go when a glass melts into a liquid? Not to changing the vibrations of atoms….

• share
• favorite_border

Engineered stacked perovskite layers harvest light or create light via layer edges.

• share
• favorite_border

Including phosphorus in predictions of photosynthesis may improve models of tropical forests where the supply of the nutrient is limited.

• share
• favorite_border

New open-source software simulates river and runoff resources.

• share
• favorite_border

New measurements offer data vital to projecting plant response to environmental changes.

• share
• favorite_border

Non-destructive technique identifies key variations in Alaskan soils, quickly providing insights into carbon levels.

• share
• favorite_border

Plasma physicists significantly improve the vertical stability of a Korean fusion device.

• share
• favorite_border

Crumpling reduces rigidity in an otherwise stiff material, making it less prone to catastrophic failure.

• share
• favorite_border

New approach offers data across species, sites, and canopies, providing insights into carbon uptake by forests.

• share
• favorite_border

The magnetic noise caused by adsorbed oxygen molecules is “eating at” the phase stability of quantum bits, mitigating the noise is vital for future quantum computers.

• share
• favorite_border

An electric field switches the conductivity on and off in atomic-scale channels, which could allow for upgrades at will.

• share
• favorite_border

Water passes through human-made straws faster than the “gold standard” protein, allowing us to filter seawater.

• share
• favorite_border

Machine learning and neural networks are the foundation of artificial intelligence and image recognition, but now they offer a bridge to see and recognize exotic insulating phases in quantum materials.

• share
• favorite_border

A revolutionary material harbors magnetism and massless electrons that travel near the speed of light—for future ultrasensitive, high-efficiency electronics and sensors.