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Profiting from Waste?
Researchers fashion a record-breaking material to recycle waste heat into electricity.
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Essential Ingredients for Discovery and Innovation
Exceptional supercomputers – including Titan, the world's most powerful machine for open science – and the just-announced INCITE Awards.
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#LabChat: What is Dark Energy? Oct 25 at 2pm ET
Join researchers from three Office of Science labs to learn more about dark energy, the mysterious and ubiquitous force driving the accelerating expansion of the universe.
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Training Your Robot the PaR-PaR Way
Berkeley Lab and JBEI Researchers Develop a Biology-Friendly Robot Programming Language.
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Batteries May Fade . . . But Research Renews
Pacific Northwest National Lab puts a new light on old batteries.
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Bright Lights and Liquid Bridges
Argonne Lab's Advanced Photon Source shows how floating water bridges defy gravity.
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Adventures in Science and Explorations at Berkeley
Thousands stopped by the Office of Science booth at Berkeley Lab's Open House. Click here to view photos of the event.
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Energizing the Future
Better batteries are being built at the Office of Science's Argonne National Lab.
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Registration Now Open for 2013 Science Bowl Teams
Today, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that registration is now open for the 2013 National Science Bowl (NSB)
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Celebrating, Molecular Style
New molecule discovered by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory can expand to take in its metallic guests.
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Just One Word—Plastics
A “universal” plastic coating could lead to lower cost, more flexible electronic devices.
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The Sound Science of Improved Drug Development
Argonne Lab uses acoustic levitation to make more effective medicines.
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