![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg In a controlled environment, the fastest-growing orientation of graphene crystals overwhelms the others and gets "evolutionarily selected" into a single crystal, even on a polycrystalline substrate, without having to match the substrate’s orientation.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/ornl-graphene-032018-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=45577886BB9251EAD030BFC775557C62E32213C912FF1E185C8D4382898168E3)
New Method to Grow Large Single-Crystal Graphene Could Advance Scalable 2D Materials
The novel technique, developed by a team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, may open new opportunities for growing the high-quality two-dimensional materials necessary for long-awaited practical applications.
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With Laser Light, Scientists Create First X-Ray Holographic Images of Viruses
Using SLAC’s X-ray laser, researchers have made the detailed 3-D images of nanoscale biology, with future applications in the study of air pollution, combustion and catalytic processes.
Read more about With Laser Light, Scientists Create First X-Ray Holographic Images of Viruses![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg This composite of two astrophysics simulations shows a Type Ia supernova (purple disc) expanding over different microlensing magnification patterns (colored fields).](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/lbnl-supernovae-030118-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=8FB3B7226A39AF3B793107ADCBDB2D5E26F6401EF25284CB1711645B4839EBC0)
Can Strongly Lensed Type Ia Supernovae Resolve One of Cosmology’s Biggest Controversies?
Berkeley Lab researchers think so – and they’re using NERSC supercomputers to find them.
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FY 2019 President’s Budget Request for DOE’s Office of Science
Details of the White House FY 2019 budget request for DOE Office of Science are now available.
Read more about FY 2019 President’s Budget Request for DOE’s Office of Science![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Illustration of a diamond anvil cell, where samples can be compressed to very high pressures between the flattened tips of two diamonds.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/slac-diamond-anvils-022218-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=77827645803CA1DD75AF98A73BD189FF36D897B40336106CB3A4C6666A34B6BB)
In a First, Tiny Diamond Anvils Trigger Chemical Reactions by Squeezing
Experiments with 'molecular anvils' mark an important advance for mechanochemistry, which has the potential to make chemistry greener and more precise.
Read more about In a First, Tiny Diamond Anvils Trigger Chemical Reactions by Squeezing![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg The High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), a DOE user facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, provides antineutrinos for the PROSPECT experiment.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/blog-neutrino-022118-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=6B51A23CB40B648D873F78E4979D33E9CDA3997A94263349975642FB4E1DEB85)
Hunting for Neutrinos: When the Ordinary Is Unexpected
Two modest neutrino experiments look to reveal big answers about how these fundamental particles interact with matter.
Read more about Hunting for Neutrinos: When the Ordinary Is Unexpected![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Director Sergei Nagaitsev stands in front of an accelerator beamline under construction at the Fermilab Accelerator Complex.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/blog-userfacility-nagaitsev-021218-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=7C042753577410F6E918779E99034BFC3A02E155BE390ACE59CA0644E519D976)
Meet the Director: Sergei Nagaitsev
Sergei Nagaitsev, director of the Fermilab Accelerator Complex user facility, looks to the future while running the day-to-day duties in support of the Office of Science High Energy Physics program's goals: to understand how our universe works at its most fundamental level, by discovering the most elementary constituents of matter and energy, and exploring the basic nature of space and time itself.
Read more about Meet the Director: Sergei Nagaitsev![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Anaerobic gut fungi colonize plant matter and release enzymes that break cell walls into simple sugars.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/blog-fungi-013118-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=208F7EF44A12AB09E6F89270EE79105B8BE35C2D1A1166AE0B3226FA2AC6AA00)
Behind the Scenes: How Fungi Make Nutrients Available to the World
Scientists are researching fungi’s essential role in decomposition, particularly breaking down cell walls in wood.
Read more about Behind the Scenes: How Fungi Make Nutrients Available to the World![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg shown are the types of storm clouds that Jiwen Fan and colleagues studied as part of their study published in Science.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/pnnl-clouds-012618-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=AE4163DEE9CDAE0CBCCFF708E733D1D2D98F22E322339818BFE270C0A947E3E4)
Tiny Particles Have Outsize Impact on Storm Clouds and Precipitation
Tiny particles fuel powerful storms and influence weather much more than has been appreciated, according to a study in the Jan. 26 issue of the journal Science.
Read more about Tiny Particles Have Outsize Impact on Storm Clouds and Precipitation![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg The ProtoDUNE detectors are being assembled at the European laboratory CERN.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/fermi-little-detectors-012318-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=0364DB5A89A177A8F487478C5CA37F5E2731E1EB01D6E9D28B17F9B61948BBC0)
The Biggest Little Detectors
Two test detectors being installed and tested at CERN are the prototypes of the much larger detectors planned for DUNE, the biggest international science project ever conducted in the United States and hosted by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Read more about The Biggest Little Detectors![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Scientists at PNNL have created a new family of nanotubes that are composed of peptide-like molecules called peptoids.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/pnnl-tubes-011818-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=701EB905877BB7AE589D5AF8FA902847B22C325759537D7F1AF7ACFA04879B5B)
Let the Good Tubes Roll
Inspired by biology, a PNNL-led team of scientists has created new tiny tubes that could help with water purification and tissue engineering studies.
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Ingredients for Life Revealed in Meteorites That Fell to Earth
Study, based in part at Berkeley Lab, also suggests dwarf planet in asteroid belt may be a source of rich organic matter.
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