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Mapping the Cosmos: Dark Energy Survey Creates Detailed Guide to Spotting Dark Matter
Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey have released the first in a series of dark matter maps of the cosmos that will help scientists understand the role that dark matter plays in galaxy formation.
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Bacteria Tracked Feeding Nitrogen to Nutrient-Starved Plants
An international team of researchers, including three from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, measured accelerated growth in plants colonized by bacteria that pull nitrogen from the air and release it into soil.
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Atmospheric Rivers, Finely Modeled
PNNL scientists are helping global climate models more accurately predict the movement of atmospheric rivers, which carry as much as 90 percent of the world’s moisture from the tropics to the poles.
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Champions in Science, Whose Stars Are Still Rising: Profile of George Vardaxis, National Science Bowl
For the run up to the 2015 National Science Bowl Finals April 30th to May 4th, this story is the third of five profiles on previous National Science Bowl competitors and champions.
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For Ultra-Cold Neutrino Experiment, a Successful Demonstration
An international team of scientists has released early results from the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) experiment, with implications for why there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe.
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Mixing Up a Batch of Stronger Metals
A team of researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee Knoxville has found that a class of high entropy alloys – which contain five or more metals – retain enhanced mechanical properties even when the mixing of metals is uneven or disordered, which opens up new possibilities for future alloy design.
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Erupting Electrodes: How Recharging Leaves Behind Microscopic Debris Inside Batteries
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Joint Center for Energy Research have gained new insight into the chemistry that clogs rechargeable lithium batteries.
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U.S. Department of Energy Awards $200 Million for Next-generation Supercomputer at its Argonne National Laboratory
Under Secretary for Science and Energy Orr announces next steps in pursuit of exascale supercomputing to accelerate major scientific discoveries and engineering breakthroughs.
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First NSLS-II X-Ray Images Hint at Science to Come
In another “first” at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a group working at the Hard X-Ray Nanoprobe has taken the facility's inaugural x-ray images.
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The Department of Energy Invites Nominations for the 2015 Ernest Orlando Lawrence and Enrico Fermi Awards
Nominations for the 2015 Ernest Orlando Lawrence and Enrico Fermi Awards are being accepted until June 15, 2015.
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Tracking Down Time Missteps
Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and University of Michigan developed a new technique that targets numerical errors related to time evolution in weather and climate models.
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Accelerating Materials Discovery With World’s Largest Database of Elastic Properties
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have published the world’s largest set of data on the complete elastic properties of inorganic compounds, increasing by an order of magnitude the number of compounds for which such data exists.
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