Machine Learning Reveals Hidden Components of X-Ray Pulses
Ultrafast pulses from X-ray lasers reveal how atoms move at femtosecond timescales, but measuring the properties of the pulses is challenging. A new approach trains neural networks to analyze the pulses. Starting from low-resolution measurements,...
5-Aug-2022 10:05 AM EDT
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Department of Energy Announces $3.2 Million for Plasma Science Research
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $3.2 million in funding for universities, national laboratories, and non-profit organizations to support frontier plasma science experiments at several midscale DOE collaborative research...
4-Aug-2022 1:45 PM EDT
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Catching a Glimpse of the Reactive Intermediates in Water in a Trillionth of a Second
The proton-transfer and ionization process in water leads to the formation of a hydroxyl-hydronium complex, a type of hydroxyl radical. The formation process causes ultrafast structural changes and the redistribution of energy among neighboring...
2-Aug-2022 3:05 PM EDT
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Department of Energy Announces $10 Million for Research on Environmental Systems Science
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $10 million in funding for 12 projects to universities, academic institutions, federal research labs, and nonprofits within the area of Environmental System Science (ESS) research. Grants will...
2-Aug-2022 1:40 PM EDT
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Seeing Double for Better Solar Cells
Halide perovskite can make solar cells a thousand times thinner than today’s silicon solar cells. A new approach allows scientists to watch changes in the material’s structure and functional properties while the material solidifies into a thin...
28-Jul-2022 4:15 PM EDT
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Novel Method Examines the Gas-Liquid Interface in New Detail
Researchers have developed an apparatus to study reactions between gas molecules and highly volatile liquids at the gas-liquid interface with new levels of detail. The apparatus directs a molecular beam onto a flat liquid surface, and when the beam...
26-Jul-2022 3:20 PM EDT
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Department of Energy Announces $3.6 Million for Research Traineeships to Broaden and Diversify Nuclear Physics
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded more than $3.6 million with a focus on broadening and diversifying the nuclear and particle physics research communities through research traineeships for undergraduates from Historically Black...
25-Jul-2022 1:50 PM EDT
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Haim Waisman: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner
Haim Waisman develops computational models of the mechanics of materials. He focuses on fracture phenomena, such as ice breaking due to climate warming, infrastructure aging and deteriorating, energy extraction from rocks, and fractures in...
25-Jul-2022 11:05 AM EDT
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Meet the Director: Ken Andersen
Ken Andersen is the associate laboratory director of the Spallation Neutron Source and the High Flux Isotope Reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This is a continuing profile series on the directors of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science...
23-Sep-2021 1:40 PM EDT
Matt Law: Then and Now / 2010 Early Career Award Winner
Then and Now looks at what a 2010 Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Award meant for Matt Law, now an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine.
23-Oct-2020 11:50 AM EDT
Victoria Orphan: Then and Now
Victoria Orphan is the James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science and Geobiology in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology.
24-Aug-2020 3:55 PM EDT
Martin Centurion: Then and Now
Martin Centurion is the Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
24-Aug-2020 3:55 PM EDT
Athena Safa Sefat: Then and Now
Athena Safa Sefat is a Senior Research Scientist and a former Wigner Fellow in the Materials Science & Technology Division of the Physical Sciences Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
13-Jul-2020 4:05 PM EDT
Colleen Iversen on Belowground Ecology
After working on a climate change experiment that showed plants adapt to additional carbon dioxide by putting extra carbon into their roots, Colleen Iverson has been on a mission to understand the role of roots in the environment, especially the...
13-Jul-2020 3:50 PM EDT
Evgenya Simakov: Then and Now
Evgenya I. Simakov is a staff scientist in the Accelerator Operations and Technology Division, Accelerators and Electrodynamics Group, at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory.
7-Jun-2020 10:10 PM EDT
Jean Paul Allain: Then and Now
Jean Paul Allain is a professor and department head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering, the director of the Radiation Surface Science and Engineering Laboratory, professor in Biomedical Engineering by courtesy and...
27-May-2020 2:15 PM EDT
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