At DOE's computing centers, researchers work with user support teams to get the best performance from supercomputers. The members of the support team are curious, driven scientists who have taken on the challenge of some of the world's most complex computers.
By recoding bacterial genomes such as E. coli, it is possible to create organisms that can potentially synthesize products not commonly found in nature.
Scientists are working to better understand the photosynthetic antenna complexes that capture sunlight for plants, algae and bacteria to use.
Rapid advances in computing constantly translate into new technologies in our everyday lives. The same is true for high-energy physics.
Researchers have been attempting to measure dark matter for more than three decades, but have yet to detect a dark matter particle. Through experiments both deep underground like LUX and LUX-ZEPLIN and in space like the AMS, researchers are narrowing the field of search.
The Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) today announced that it has selected four co-design centers as part of a 4 year, $48 million funding award. The first year is funded at $12 million, and is to be allocated evenly among the four award recipients.
The Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) today announced the selection of 35 software development proposals representing 25 research and academic organizations.
Scientists are using x-rays from the national laboratories to study the movement and structure of lithium-ion batteries in real time. This technique led to the development of the cathode used in the Chevrolet Volt and is now being used to improve our understanding of batteries.
Researchers found that certain models get the relationship between environmental moisture and precipitation wrong. This mismatch produces more precipitation than is observed particularly during inactive phase of the Madden-Julian Oscillation.
The Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), established on August 12, 1999, provides valuable, independent advice to the Department of Energy on a variety of complex scientific and technical issues related to its Advanced Scientific Computing Research program.
Providing full public access to the research DOE funds is simple in principle and complex in practice
Scientists at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis uncovered the mysteries of photochemical instability in a widely used semiconductor. Their results reveal previously unpredicted pathways to degradation and provide insights.
Physicists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are analyzing how ultrafast laser pulses interact with matter. Their study of how two attosecond laser pulses would interact with a helium atom produced an electron momentum distribution that displays an unexpected two-armed vortex pattern, resembling a spiral galaxy.
The Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) today announced its first round of funding with the selection of 15 application development proposals for full funding and seven proposals for seed funding, representing teams from 45 research and academic organizations.
Scientists reconciled a long-standing controversy on topological insulators’ low-temperature electrical properties. These results might pave a way to control the properties of these materials, which hold promise for next-generation electronics.
A recent study reveals different fungal species secrete a rich set of enzymes that share similar functions, despite species-specific differences in the amino acid sequences of these enzymes.
Scientists constructed defect-free sheets of material with pores that “breathe”—open and close simultaneously without falling apart.
Carbon nanotubes that confine water into one-dimensional wires have validated a decade-old prediction and achieved rates faster than in bulk water and state-of-the-art fuel cell membranes. Ultimately, this could aid membranes for fuel cells to power your car and home.
Scientists performed an exquisitely precise measurement of the angular distribution of neutrinos emerging from beta decay using a novel approach to reveal the subtle imprint of tensor interactions -- processes that have long defied measurement.
Developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a new mathematical framework sheds light on how fast a fluid moves in its environment, how much pressure it is under, and what forces it exerts on its surroundings.
In herbivores' guts, fungi digest plant material. Researchers characterized several fungi involved in this digestion process and identified a large number of enzymes that work synergistically to degrade the raw biomass.
Scientists reveal conductive edges and thread-like flaws during the normal operation of molybdenum disulfide transistors using a specialized imaging technique of interest for next-generation electronics.
Researchers studying brown carbon released by burning plant matter found that brown carbon’s light absorption (warming effect) properties depend more on burn conditions) than fuel type.
For the first time, scientists revealed the structural and chemical evolution of molecules at an electrode surface in an operating battery.
Future batteries made of negatively charged electrodes that take advantage of magnesium intercalation could have twice or more the energy density of today’s commercial lithium-ion batteries.
Scientists traced how a cluster of water molecules adapts to incorporate an extra proton in the formation of an aqueous acid. Their research indicates that the extra proton resides on the surface of a cage structure formed by the 21 water molecules.
Atom and bond arrangements help determine a molecule’s identity. Researchers adapted a new technique called “itProbe” to produce images of structure and bonding in a single molecule, essentially unmasking the molecules.
Scientists can now manipulate x-ray light using visible light, removing the need for inefficient and expensive optics that other approaches must use.
Researchers found that the details of an extremely rare, but fundamental, process, in which two packets of light scatter simultaneously from a single electron deviated dramatically from expectations.
To “turn” sunlight into chemical fuels, scientists are investigating a junction inside designer solar cells. The connection is difficult to probe. Scientists devised a probe and found that the junction promotes the release of electrons and suppresses unwanted reactions.
Some efforts to improve solar panel efficiency by focusing on surface plasmons, light waves trapped on a metal surface, but the processes didn’t prove to be highly efficient. Researchers found that plasmon induced hot electron transfer could take a more efficient route.
A new family of nature-inspired materials that, when placed in water, spontaneously assemble into nanotubes is the latest in the effort to use synthetic polymers to precisely build durable nanotubes that approach the complexity and function of nature’s proteins.
To create circuits the size of molecules, scientists need molecular diodes that let current travel in one direction, but not another. Scientists restructured a carbon-based diode that is 1,000 times more effective at conducting current in one direction than the other.
For the first time, scientists introduced an ionic semiconductor to the family of 2D nanomaterials. As an ionic material, it has special properties that graphene and other 2D nanomaterials don’t have.
Flow batteries offer low-cost energy storage, but the battery’s membrane reduces its operating life and efficiency. Scientists made a better membrane.
Using information on the propagation and attenuation of fast particles coming from the collisions of high-energy nuclei, nuclear physicists can extract transport properties of the hot, dense matter.
State-of-the-art weather radars were installed at Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility sites.
Physicists and engineers demonstrated that it is possible to use liquid helium to apply an electric field several times larger than that used in previous neutron electric dipole moment experiments, which provides insights into the nature of the universe.
Scientists built enzymes that efficiently produce hydrogen, one half of the "holy grail" of splitting water to make hydrogen to fuel cars.
Thanks to a new technique, scientists can analyze proteins collected from an intact microbial community, gaining insights into how the broader system works.
A new protective barrier can prevent lithium-metal batteries from failing. The barrier allows the electrode to work at room temperature and hampers the detrimental formation of dendrites. Scientists made this film.
Scientists discovered a self-assembly mechanism that surprisingly drives negatively charged molecules to clump together to form islands when graphene is supported by an electrical insulator.
Scientists modeled runoff using two widely adopted methods. They found that the modeling choices result in differences that ultimately swing results in carbon cycle simulations—by as much as 20%.
Scientists changed our understanding of metal-organic frameworks. They uprooted the belief that these frameworks must be made from rigid starting materials.
Converting light from one wavelength to a shorter wavelength is typically inefficient. To tackle that inefficiency, a team built a structure with metallic cavities that improves the light conversion efficiency by orders of magnitude.
Scientists stretched a crystal lattice in just one dimension, allowing them to tune the structure’s electronic and magnetic properties.
To create the next generation of solar panels, scientists must model how complex interactions occur. Modeling across different scales provides needed insights. In a review article, scientists assessed the state of the art for calculations used to model electronic states in very thin films.
More efficient solar cells will likely be based on a family of materials known as hybrid perovskites. Scientists identified how to control different properties and stability in these solar cell materials using lead-free preparation.
Molecular Foundry scientists developed a new imaging technique that greatly improves images of light elements by fewer electrons in electron microscopy.
For the first time, scientists captured high-resolution 3D images from individual double-helix DNA segments attached at either end to gold nanoparticles, potentially valuable information about disease-relevant proteins and DNA assembly.
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