![ornl-red-blood-cells-101915-thumb.jpg Red blood cells (red) and circulating tumor cells (green) traveling through a microfluidic cell sorting device as simulated by uDeviceX.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/ornl-red-blood-cells-101915-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=E6F621384D9010E152C6A45E23D954179C9E58ED0774F63B0772C5E6DAB7C0F5)
Flowing Toward Red Blood Cell Breakthroughs
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility users employ Titan to understand circulating tumor cells, sickle cell anemia, and drug delivery.
Read more about Flowing Toward Red Blood Cell Breakthroughs![blog-fermi-pellegrini-101415-thumb.jpg Claudio Pellegrini (right) and SLAC scientist Herman Winick in the klystron gallery of SLAC's linear accelerator. Pellegrini and Winick were instrumental in making the idea for LCLS a reality.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/blog-fermi-pellegrini-101415-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=E07DDE5EF79B34CA0A66AD8E6ACEA6811796CCB70BE31CCC91A28F1302B44DBA)
Understanding Nature, Accelerating Electrons, and Advancing Science
Profile of Fermi Award winner Claudio Pellegrini.
Read more about Understanding Nature, Accelerating Electrons, and Advancing Science![blog-fermi-shank-100715-thumb.jpg Chuck Shank presenting his “Vision 2010” plan during his annual address to employees at Berkeley Lab.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/blog-fermi-shank-100715-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=2B4C84F9E27A5D0AE79FABF973F307DA81E4DC5B3F387FD79B2676152D7FEF62)
A Passionate Scientist, a Picosecond Pioneer and a Presidential Honoree
Profile of Fermi Award winner Chuck Shank.
Read more about A Passionate Scientist, a Picosecond Pioneer and a Presidential Honoree![ornl-solar-applications-100615-thumb.jpg A surfactant template guides the self-assembly of functional polymer structures in an aqueous solution.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/ornl-solar-applications-100615-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=09A3A147712B2CC88FEF736CA850AD3AD24A5F2AC069046CCE32C1FD6152ED70)
ORNL Researchers Find ‘Greener’ Way to Assemble Materials for Solar Applications
Using three Office of Science User Facilities, scientists found a way to control the self-assembly of photovoltaic polymers with exquisite precision, using a detergent-like molecule as a template.
Read more about ORNL Researchers Find ‘Greener’ Way to Assemble Materials for Solar Applications![blog-early-career-marino-093015-thumb.jpg Neutrinos are the ghosts of the universe. They pass through all matter and travel at near the speed of light. And some begin with a star’s violent death. Alysia Marino is spending her career hunting down neutrinos and learning their secrets.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/blog-early-career-marino-093015-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=A63245387B2948ACA8B097BBACEDD1D2F05904865DE72CE167A4F77D46AE2885)
Hunting Cosmic Ghosts
Third in a series of profiles on the recipients of DOE’s Office of Science early career awards: Alysia Marino, a University of Colorado scientist who is spending her career tracking down neutrinos and learning their secrets.
Read more about Hunting Cosmic Ghosts![blog-nsb-092815-thumb.jpg Mira Loma team enjoying their championship prize trip to Alaska.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/blog-nsb-092815-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=79582B76679504776815F1AD0B3380D0F06FECAFB6952CE2B08F93990803B842)
Building Champions: National Science Bowl Offseason
Five-time National Science Bowl champion Mira Loma HS keeps an intense – and pizza fueled – training regimen through the summer and fall.
Read more about Building Champions: National Science Bowl Offseason![blog-early-career-vitev-092215-thumb.jpg Ivan Vitev (top right) at LANL has done outstanding work in nuclear physics, thanks to the DOE Early Career Research Program Award.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/blog-early-career-vitev-092215-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=75338077D95D3C75CBA8EAB32B98C0C091D9D1936B14640F424A7F6FD491BF49)
Seeing Quarks and Gluons Through Jets and Silhouettes
Second in a series of profiles on the recipients of DOE’s Office of Science early career awards: Ivan Vitev, a Los Alamos National Lab scientist who shows how the building blocks of matter are organized in Nature’s toy box.
Read more about Seeing Quarks and Gluons Through Jets and Silhouettes![lbnl-invisibility-cloak-091715-thumb.jpg A 3D illustration of a metasurface skin cloak made from an ultrathin layer of nanoantennas (gold blocks) covering an arbitrarily shaped object. Light reflects off the cloak (red arrows) as if it were reflecting off a flat mirror.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/lbnl-invisibility-cloak-091715-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=E92C1111AD00D4CC1832275CBCA58CBBA6B5DBA5166AF5269D79AB04D0772D9C)
Making 3D Objects Disappear
Berkeley Lab researchers create ultrathin invisibility cloak.
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Best Precision Yet for Neutrino Measurements at Daya Bay
By tracking the transformation of neutrinos, scientists hope to answer fundamental physics questions.
Read more about Best Precision Yet for Neutrino Measurements at Daya Bay![blog-early-career-betley-091015-thumb.jpg Theodore Betley (top right), a Harvard University scientist who is catalyzing transformations for chemicals and students.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/blog-early-career-betley-091015-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=5F7CAD81D431B1B023CCBAECA91060E15539BE7690025D6E4980D4E7C913DFC1)
Catalysts on the Cusp of Coming Apart
First in a series of profiles on the recipients of DOE’s Office of Science early career awards: Theodore Betley, a Harvard University scientist who is catalyzing transformations for chemicals and students.
Read more about Catalysts on the Cusp of Coming Apart![bnl-perfect-fluid-090115-thumb.jpg Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider's PHENIX detector.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/bnl-perfect-fluid-090115-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=E167851D2C2F4DE56AE5B65EE156CC3FABC1089560B1B96292C25E73E3F0D500)
Tiny Drops of Early Universe 'Perfect' Fluid
First results from collisions of three-particle ions with gold nuclei reveal clear-cut evidence of primordial soup's signature particle flow.
Read more about Tiny Drops of Early Universe 'Perfect' Fluid![slac-antimatter-082615-thumb.jpg Plasma wakefield acceleration of both particle types, as shown in this simulation, could lead to smaller and more powerful colliders than today’s machines.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/slac-antimatter-082615-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=2005ED63F388E02CDFD476052A22E4BD0EF0CB86CE368FE853651BCD33FA923D)
Antimatter Catches a Wave at SLAC
Accelerating positrons with plasma is a step toward smaller and cheaper particle colliders.
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