![slac-brain-081715-thumb.jpg This illustration shows a protein complex at work in brain signaling. It contains two joined protein complexes: SNARE, shown in blue, red, and green, and synaptotagmin-1, shown in orange.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/slac-brain-081715-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=DF395A29F3531A6879CEBEFA5C8F6BB017FED96649BA017ED6922F4114156602)
Scientists Discover Atomic-Resolution Details of Brain Signaling
X-ray laser experiment at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory reveals never-before seen neural messaging details which could help in designing new drugs for brain disorders.
Read more about Scientists Discover Atomic-Resolution Details of Brain Signaling![blog-soil-072915-thumb.jpg At the Department of Energy’s EMSL, scientists from around the world conduct experimental and theoretical research to understand the environment on a molecular level.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/blog-soil-072915-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=CACB05604D27AF4F30374A43B858E80E42236A110467AEF0EEBCCA0A65DE3CEE)
In the International Year of Soils, EMSL Researchers Dig Deep
Researchers at EMSL study the components and inhabitants of soil communities, gathering data to better understand and model how factors – agriculture, climate changes, ecosystems activities – change soil chemistry.
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Researchers Build Bacteria’s Photosynthetic Engine
Scientists used the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to create a 100-million-atom simulation of a chromatophore, providing an unprecedented look at how bacteria harvest light for food.
Read more about Researchers Build Bacteria’s Photosynthetic Engine![bnl-molecular-origins-072815-thumb.jpg Brookhaven researchers Sergei Maslov (left) and Alexi Tkachenko developed a theoretical model to explain molecular self-replication.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/bnl-molecular-origins-072815-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=B3B75B3723F91793A4ABB8990AD689E38D654BAAE6096A1594BEA65F4759DDED)
New Computer Model Could Explain how Simple Molecules Took First Step Toward Life
Two Brookhaven researchers developed theoretical model to explain the origins of self-replicating molecules.
Read more about New Computer Model Could Explain how Simple Molecules Took First Step Toward Life![lawrence-winners-072415-thumb.jpg Lawrence award winners posed with Energy Secretary Moniz.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/lawrence-winners-072415-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=D8DB7D7B3A86A9F8AE3C8A46CC09D18DDB3B7A20EC0B0D6A900A2E19885D6945)
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
The Office of Science salutes the winners of the E.O. Lawrence Awards.
Read more about Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award![slac-switchboard-072215-thumb.jpg This illustration shows arrestin (yellow), an important type of signaling protein, while docked with rhodopsin (orange), a G protein-coupled receptor.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/slac-switchboard-072215-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=F41A8B62A67B52552D57DD5282A311C01C62A0DB49FA33C94EFCBA152B16224B)
Long-Sought Discovery Fills in Missing Details of Cell 'Switchboard'
SLAC's x-ray laser lends new insight into key target for drug development.
Read more about Long-Sought Discovery Fills in Missing Details of Cell 'Switchboard'![pnnl-clouds-072015-thumb.jpg The Southern Ocean's clouds can cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight that would otherwise be absorbed by the darker ocean below.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/pnnl-clouds-072015-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=F2D527BE6CAD12BB151C6D1052A23C09EF691414EA7BD1809F45700309F7D026)
How Clouds Get Their Brightness
Scientists at Pacific Northwest and Los Alamos national laboratories, along with colleagues at the University of Leeds and the University of Washington, show that marine life cultivates half of the summer cloud droplets over the Southern Ocean.
Read more about How Clouds Get Their Brightness![lbnl-nano-imaging-071715-thumb.jpg SINGLE uses in situ TEM imaging of platinum nanocrystals freely rotating in a graphene liquid cell to determine the 3D structures of individual colloidal nanoparticles.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/lbnl-nano-imaging-071715-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=13AF105041CFCECAB534FC6B415599CA5CEBAB2DDEDD85DE258988F4939A201B)
A Most Singular Nano-Imaging Technique
Berkeley Lab’s SINGLE provides images of individual nanoparticles in solution.
Read more about A Most Singular Nano-Imaging Technique![blog-light-sources-070715-thumb.jpg The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source Facility at Dusk.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/blog-light-sources-070715-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=983A35422131611455C1BF358D57ECF393771FA138447FE1DDD28ABDE5BD0D86)
It All Comes to Light
New advances, including light sources, allow for non-destructive techniques for examining old artifacts.
Read more about It All Comes to Light![bnl-catalytic-reactions-062915-thumb.jpg Collaborating scientists (left to right) Eric Stach, Dmitri Zakharov, Anatoly Frenkel, and Yuanyuan Li at a transmission electron microscope (TEM) in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/bnl-catalytic-reactions-062915-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=15A90E7881662EAC3AEA8E14440F6B41F216C025402CD7DDE96574EBFB626C5C)
X-Rays and Electrons Join Forces To Map Catalytic Reactions in Real-Time
New technique combines electron microscopy and synchrotron x-rays at Brookhaven Lab to track chemical reactions under real operating conditions.
Read more about X-Rays and Electrons Join Forces To Map Catalytic Reactions in Real-Time![arm-blog-062215-thumb.jpg NREL researchers are experimenting with adding wind and photovoltaic solar energy systems at the Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the South Pole.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/arm-blog-062215-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=77B4FCE4F409FD83DC297031E670B4D9B0BA00360C1FCE81FDD381129D332AB6)
Summer in the Arctic
Researchers supported by the Office of Science are doing ‘cool’ new research this summer.
Read more about Summer in the Arctic![blog-platinum-061515-thumb.jpg A team led by Argonne National Lab’s Dr. Vojislav Stamenkovic and Berkeley Lab’s Professor Peidong Yang designed platinum-nickel nanoframes with multilayered platinum skin structure. The structure catalyzes the oxygen reduction reaction (shown here) on the surface.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2015/blog-platinum-061515-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=89C9028A6CC778276A45C298854932E29474CF3F33187C7BF6E86A24012C69F6)
The Perils of Platinum
Curtailing precious metal use to bring new energy storage and production online.
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