FY 2017 Budget Request to Congress for DOE’s Office of Science
DOE Office of Science Director Cherry Murray presents the details of White House FY 2017 budget request at the April 4, 2016 ASCAC Meeting.
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A finely tuned carbon nanotube thin film has the potential to act as a thermoelectric power generator that captures and uses waste heat, according to researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
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For the first time, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have shown that carbon nanotubes as small as eight-tenths of a nanometer in diameter can transport protons faster than bulk water, by an order of magnitude.
Read more about Tiny Tubes Move Into the Fast LaneBoosting Production of Radioisotopes for Diagnostics and Therapeutics
The DOE Office of Science’s Nuclear Physics Isotope Development and Production for Research and Applications program (DOE Isotope Program) seeks to make critical isotopes more readily available for energy, medical, and national security applications and for basic research.
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LCLS-II promises never-before-seen views of nature at work.
Read more about Major Upgrade Will Boost Power of World’s Brightest X-ray LaserProving the Genetic Code’s Flexibility
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and Yale University show deviations in an amino acid’s code can occur naturally.
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Scientists at Brookhaven National Lab are studying the tiny particles – from man-made and natural sources – to understand the big impact aerosols have on Earth’s climate system.
Read more about What are Aerosols?From Near-Dropout to PhD, Berkeley Lab Scientist Now at Forefront of Biofuels Revolution
Berkeley Lab biochemist Ee-Been Goh focuses on engineering E. coli bacteria to produce the compound - methyl ketones - for possible biodiesel fuel use and on mentoring future generations of researchers.
Read more about From Near-Dropout to PhD, Berkeley Lab Scientist Now at Forefront of Biofuels RevolutionRevealing the Fluctuations of Flexible DNA in 3-D
First-of-their-kind images by Berkeley Lab-led research team could aid in use of DNA to build nanoscale devices.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers made a molecule that could selectively bind to metals in the middle of the lanthanide series. The accomplishment proves selective extraction of central lanthanides is possible and eventually could provide future materials for technologies such as strong magnets in wind turbines.
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a family of nature-inspired polymers that, when placed in water, spontaneously assemble into hollow crystalline nanotubes.
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Probing the "color" interactions among quarks tests a theoretical concept of nature's strongest force to pave a way toward mapping protons' 3D internal structure.
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