The Proof is in the Pores
Researchers at several of DOE’s Energy Frontier Research Centers are studying metal-organic frameworks – porous materials with unique chemical and physical properties – to open new channels for energy science.
Read more about The Proof is in the PoresNew 2-Color X-ray Laser Technique Could Reveal Atomic Detail of Medically Important Proteins
A unique X-ray laser innovation developed at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory produced a new way to study ultrafast processes in biology, materials, chemistry, and other fields.
Read more about New 2-Color X-ray Laser Technique Could Reveal Atomic Detail of Medically Important ProteinsDr. Steven Ashby Named Director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Ashby has served as PNNL's Deputy Director for Science and Technology since 2008 and was selected following a highly competitive national search.
Read more about Dr. Steven Ashby Named Director of Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryBiofuel Proteomics: Joint BioEnergy Institute Researchers Use Proteomics to Profile Switchgrass
In a study led by Benjamin Schwessinger, a grass geneticist with JBEI’s Feedstocks Division, researchers used advanced proteomic techniques to identify 1,750 unique proteins in shoots of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), a North American native prairie grass that is widely viewed as one of the most promising of all the fuel crop candidates.
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Scientists on two continents have independently discovered a set of celestial objects that seem to belong to the rare category of dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting our home galaxy, the Milky Way.
Read more about Scientists Find Rare Dwarf Satellite Galaxy Candidates in Dark Energy Survey DataThe Climate is Starting to Change Faster
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) discovered the speed with which temperatures change will continue to increase over the next several decades, intensifying the impacts of climate change.
Read more about The Climate is Starting to Change FasterORNL Microscopy Directly Images Problematic Lithium Dendrites in Batteries
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have captured the first real-time nanoscale images of lithium dendrite structures known to degrade lithium-ion batteries.
Read more about ORNL Microscopy Directly Images Problematic Lithium Dendrites in BatteriesBetween Micro and Macro, Berkeley Lab Mathematicians Model Fluids at the Mesoscale
The little-known field of fluctuating hydrodynamics could have enormous impacts in applications ranging from batteries to drug delivery to microfluidic devices.
Read more about Between Micro and Macro, Berkeley Lab Mathematicians Model Fluids at the MesoscaleSoot and Dust: A Better Picture of the Impact on Snow
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory led development of a first-of-its-kind, high-resolution regional modeling framework that simulated how light is absorbed by soot and dust in seasonal snowpack.
Read more about Soot and Dust: A Better Picture of the Impact on SnowArgonne Research Expanding From Injectors to Inhalers
In collaboration with Australian researchers, Argonne’s scientists are using decades of experience analyzing vehicle fuel injectors to study medical inhalers, hoping to unlock the secrets of the devices that are so well known to asthma sufferers everywhere.
Read more about Argonne Research Expanding From Injectors to InhalersAdvancing Accelerator Science Using Supercomputing
Experts at Argonne’s Leadership Computing Facility have teamed up with physicists at Fermilab to create more accurate and more reliable models of collisions within the world’s highest-intensity particle beams.
Read more about Advancing Accelerator Science Using SupercomputingA New Level of Earthquake Understanding
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is reporting the successful study of stress fields along the San Andreas fault at the microscopic scale, the scale at which earthquake-triggering stresses originate.
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