Defining Standards for Genomes from Uncultivated Microorganisms
An international team led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has developed standards for the minimum metadata to be supplied with single amplified genomes (SAGs) and metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) submitted to public databases.
Read more about Defining Standards for Genomes from Uncultivated MicroorganismsFormer SULI Student Wins Fulbright Award for Research on W7-X
Alexandra LeViness, a former Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) student who will join Princeton University’s graduate program in plasma physics in 2018, has won a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to do research at the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany.
Read more about Former SULI Student Wins Fulbright Award for Research on W7-XTara Pandya: Visualizing the Future of Nuclear Energy
Oak Ridge National Lab researcher Tara Pandya develops Monte Carlo and Deterministic radiation transport codes as a computational nuclear engineer in the lab’s Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division.
Read more about Tara Pandya: Visualizing the Future of Nuclear EnergyBig Data Meets Big Healthcare for Veterans
Argonne’s extensive track record of successes with big data and big computers make it the quintessential partner of this multi-faceted research team to improve healthcare for millions of veterans, advance supercomputing and solve some of the nation’s biggest scientific challenges.
Read more about Big Data Meets Big Healthcare for VeteransMeet the Director: Chuck Black
Charles (Chuck) Black, the director of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, runs his facility with staff and scientists who embrace the mission of advancing the science of nanomaterials to impact society.
Read more about Meet the Director: Chuck BlackMicroBooNE Produces Clearest Images of Neutrino Interactions Yet
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory contributed to the design of a U.S.-based international collaboration studying “ghost-like” fundamental particles called neutrinos at an experiment known as MicroBooNE which has produced the clearest images of neutrino interactions yet.
Read more about MicroBooNE Produces Clearest Images of Neutrino Interactions Yet"Monkey Wrench" Molecule Jams Tuberculosis Protein
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory were part of a recent discovery of a new molecule called an inhibitor that attacks tuberculosis-causing bacteria by cutting off its production of a chemical necessary for its survival.
Read more about "Monkey Wrench" Molecule Jams Tuberculosis ProteinAnthony Walker: Modeling the Natural World
ORNL terrestrial ecosystem modeler Anthony Walker has tackled a variety of tasks since arriving at Oak Ridge National Laboratory 4 years ago, including leading an international group of scientists exploring how forests respond to elevated levels of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Read more about Anthony Walker: Modeling the Natural WorldInterdisciplinary Team Designs Gas Flow Cell to Analyze Catalytic Behavior
With the help of other researchers from ORNL and Colorado State University, Daniel Olds and Katharine Page developed a U-tube gas flow cell to study catalysts and better understand how they facilitate chemical reactions.
Read more about Interdisciplinary Team Designs Gas Flow Cell to Analyze Catalytic BehaviorDark Energy Survey Reveals Most Accurate Measurement of Dark Matter Structure in the Universe
New result rivals precision of cosmic microwave background measurements, supports view that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the cosmos.
Read more about Dark Energy Survey Reveals Most Accurate Measurement of Dark Matter Structure in the UniverseWorld’s Smallest Neutrino Detector Finds Big Physics Fingerprint
After more than a year of operation at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the COHERENT experiment, using the world’s smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of the elusive, electrically neutral particles that interact only weakly with matter.
Read more about World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector Finds Big Physics FingerprintNew Simulations Could Help in Hunt for Massive Mergers of Neutron Stars, Black Holes
Working with an international team, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed new computer models to explore what happens when a black hole joins with a neutron star – the superdense remnant of an exploded star.
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