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Berkeley Lab Breaks Ground on Integrative Genomics Building
The groundbreaking for the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) on January 31, 2017, at the former site of a storied particle accelerator, celebrates the future colocation of two partnering scientific user community resources and launches construction of the first building in the long-term vision for a consolidated biosciences presence on Berkeley Lab’s main site.
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Study of Microbes Reveals New Insight About Earth’s Geology and Carbon Cycles
Argonne National Laboratory researchers have discovered that the types of carbon “food” sources available to microbial communities significantly affected the composition and activity of the communities and the types of mineral products that form in their environment.
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Co-Design Centers to Help Make Next-Generation Exascale Computing a Reality
As collaborators in four co-design centers created by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Exascale Computing Project (ECP), researchers at the DOE's Argonne National Laboratory are helping to solve increasingly complex problems through modeling large-scale systems and pave the way for the creation of exascale supercomputers.
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PPPL Scientist Uncovers Physics Behind Plasma-Etching Process
Physicist Igor Kaganovich at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and collaborators have uncovered some of the physics that make possible the etching of silicon computer chips, which power cell phones, computers, and a huge range of electronic devices.
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For This Metal, Electricity Flows, But Not the Heat
Berkeley-led study finds law-breaking property in vanadium dioxide that could lead to applications in thermoelectrics, window coatings.
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Solid-State Processing: New Paths to New Materials
Scientists at Ames Laboratory and the Iowa State University are creating materials by solid-state processing because it offers advantages: costs less than other methods, doesn’t require solvents, often can be done without heat, and uses relatively low energy inputs.
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Taking Materials into the Third Dimension
To create more efficient catalysts and separation devices, scientists would like to start with porous materials with controlled atomic-scale structures as random defects can hamper performance. At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a team created a one-pot method that produces complex, highly oriented three-dimensional pore structures.
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Connecting the Bytes
Computer scientist Ramakrishnan Kannan has created a distributive machine learning tool – which collects and sorts enormous amounts of data in a fraction of the time of other methods – through a project funded by ORNL’s laboratory directed research and development program.
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Fermilab Achieves Milestone Beam Power for Neutrino Experiments
Thanks to recent upgrades to the Main Injector, Fermilab’s flagship accelerator, Fermilab scientists have produced 700-kilowatt proton beams for the lab’s experiments.
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PPPL Physicist Uncovers Clues to Mechanism Behind Magnetic Reconnection
Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has published a paper showing that magnetic reconnection — the process in which magnetic field lines snap together and release energy — can be triggered by motion in nearby magnetic fields.
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Turning Research Data into Scientific Discoveries
Line Pouchard, an information specialist in computational science, brings her expertise in big data management and curation to Brookhaven Lab's Center for Data-Driven Discovery.
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The Contradictory Catalyst
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found the key to speeding up the rate of reaction of a potential catalyst for energy storage lies in making the reactive parts of the catalyst move more slowly.
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