New Study of Water-Saving Plants Advances Efforts to Develop Drought-Resistant Crops
As part of an effort to develop drought-resistant food and bioenergy crops, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have uncovered the genetic and metabolic mechanisms that allow certain plants to conserve water and thrive in semi-arid climates.
Read more about New Study of Water-Saving Plants Advances Efforts to Develop Drought-Resistant CropsUdaya Kalluri: A Contagious Enthusiasm for Plant Science
A 10-year scientist in the Biosciences Division at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Kalluri focuses her work around lab programs such as DOE’s BioEnergy Science Center (BESC) to create better biofuels, improve plant productivity, and study beneficial plant-microbe interactions.
Read more about Udaya Kalluri: A Contagious Enthusiasm for Plant ScienceCooling Technique Helps Researchers “Target” a Major Component for a New Collider
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory have recently developed a new ultra-low-friction sliding contact mechanism that uses chilled water to remove heat from a key component of a next-generation collider.
Read more about Cooling Technique Helps Researchers “Target” a Major Component for a New ColliderPPPL and Max Planck Physicists Confirm the Precision of Magnetic Fields in the Most Advanced Stellarator in the World
Physicist Sam Lazerson of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has teamed with German scientists to confirm that the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) fusion energy device called a stellarator in Greifswald, Germany, produces high-quality magnetic fields that are consistent with their complex design.
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Atmospheric scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found that more frequent, more intense and longer-lasting storms cause heavier spring rain in central US.
Read more about Where the Rains Come FromUpdate DOE Office of Science
DOE Office of Science Director Cherry Murray provides an Office of Science Update at the December 1, 2016 HEPAP Meeting.
Read more about Update DOE Office of Science'Tennessine' Acknowledges State Institutions' Roles in Element's Discovery
The recently discovered element 117 has been officially named "tennessine" in recognition of Tennessee’s contributions to its discovery, including the efforts of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and its Tennessee collaborators at Vanderbilt University and the University of Tennessee.
Read more about 'Tennessine' Acknowledges State Institutions' Roles in Element's DiscoveryGlowing Crystals Can Detect, Cleanse Contaminated Drinking Water
X-ray study at Berkeley Lab explores atomic structure of tiny traps for heavy metals.
Read more about Glowing Crystals Can Detect, Cleanse Contaminated Drinking WaterUltrafast Imaging Reveals Existence of 'Polarons'
A team led by physicist Yimei Zhu at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has produced definitive evidence that the movement of electrons has a direct effect on atomic arrangements, driving deformations in a material's 3D crystalline lattice in ways that can drastically alter the flow of current.
Read more about Ultrafast Imaging Reveals Existence of 'Polarons'Research Planned for Unique Spinning Nuclei Nets Prize
Elena Long, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of New Hampshire, has been awarded the 2016 Jefferson Science Associates Postdoctoral Research Prize of $10,000 for her plans to build and test a new kind of target that will allow scientists to explore the physics of spinning nuclei.
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Findings by a team of scientists from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) represent an attempt to untangle the forces that shape the gut microbiome, which plays an important role in keeping us healthy.
Read more about Genes and Early Environment Sculpt the Gut MicrobiomeScientists Trace ‘Poisoning’ in Chemical Reactions to the Atomic Scale
Researchers have revealed new atomic-scale details about pesky deposits that can stop or slow chemical reactions vital to fuel production and other processes. This disruption to reactions is known as deactivation or poisoning.
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