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Brookhaven Lab Helped Coax the Higgs Out of Hiding
There's good reason for Long Islanders to celebrate the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded last week to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert for their prediction of the Higgs particle and the mechanism by which it gives mass to the building blocks of our universe.
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The Other Route to Biofuels
Scientists identify key genes for increasing oil in plant leaves.
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Study of the Black Spruce forest by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland will improve our understanding of how climate change affects the health of forests.
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Energy Department to Award $100 Million for Energy Frontier Research Centers
Funding will help fuel innovative solutions toward next generation energy systems.
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Researchers Demonstrate 'Accelerator on a Chip'
Technology could spawn new generations of smaller, less expensive devices for science and medicine.
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Be Amazed by the Work at DOE
Check out the National Library of EnergyBeta: A Gateway to Information about the "All-of-the-Above" Energy Strategy.
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Supercomputers Help Solve a 50-Year Homework Assignment
Calculation related to question of why the universe is made of matter.
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Berkeley Lab Scientist Named MacArthur "Genius" Fellow
Physicist Carl Haber has turned techniques first developed for studying high-energy particles into technologies which will recover and restore some of the earliest recordings ever made.
Read more about Berkeley Lab Scientist Named MacArthur "Genius" Fellow![argonne-earthquakes-092513-thumb.jpg Scientists broke new ground in the study of deep earthquakes, a poorly understood phenomenon that occurs where the oceanic lithosphere, driven by tectonics, plunges under continental plates.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2013/argonne-earthquakes-092513-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=8D59AFCE7A2811E2938BEF6739A880ECD163E22B749BCC50338B1A583EAB2CE0)
Scientists Push Closer to Understanding Mystery of Deep Earthquakes
Argonne Lab’s Advanced Photon Source breaks new ground in an extremely high pressure study.
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Scientists Expand Search for Light Dark Matter
Physicists on the CDMS experiment have devised a better way to search for a particle that, if it exists, would revolutionize our ideas about dark matter.
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Glass or Plastic?
Researchers at Georgia Tech, supported in part by the Office of Science, show that at tiny scales, the makeup of a container affects how fast the H2O flows.
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New Catalyst Transforms Virtually Untapped Form of Hydrogen Fuel into Electricity
Brookhaven Lab scientists use simple, 'green' process to create novel core-shell catalyst that tolerates carbon monoxide in fuel cells and opens new, inexpensive pathways for zero-emission vehicles.
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