2015 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Ames National Laboratory Unpacks New Microscopes

Ames National Laboratory is in the process of installing nearly $6 million in microscope equipment at its soon-to-be-opened Sensitive Instrument Facility.

Supernova Twins: Making Standard Candles More Standard Than Ever

Members of the international Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory), based at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have found a new way to measure cosmological distances with far greater accuracy.

Going to Extremes with Zirconia

PNNL scientists enhanced an analysis tool that can be partnered with nuclear magnetic resonance to allow studies under extreme temperatures and pressures.

Energy-Efficient Reaction Drives ORNL Biofuel Conversion Technology

A new study from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory explains the mechanism behind a technology that converts bio-based ethanol into hydrocarbon blend-stocks for use as fossil fuel alternatives.

ALCF Helps Tackle the Large Hadron Collider’s Big Data Challenge

Argonne physicists are using Mira to perform simulations of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments with a leadership-class supercomputer for the first time, shedding light on a path forward for interpreting future LHC data.

Physicists Measure Force that Makes Antimatter Stick Together

Peering at the debris from particle collisions that recreate the conditions of the very early universe, scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory have - for the first time - measured the force of interaction between pairs of antiprotons.

Cold Electronics Help Scientists Spot Elusive 'Ghost' Particles

Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have been developing specialized cold electronics, instruments that operate while immersed in liquid argon, a cryogenic liquid that boils at a biting -186 degrees Celsius or -303 degrees Fahrenheit.

‘Sidecars’ Pave the Way for Concurrent Analytics of Large-Scale Simulations

A new software tool developed through a multi-disciplinary collaboration at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) allows researchers doing large-scale simulations at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and other supercomputing facilities to do data analytics and visualizations of their simulations while the simulations are running.

Calcium-48’s ‘Neutron Skin’ Thinner Than Previously Thought

An international team led by Gaute Hagen of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used America’s most powerful supercomputer, Titan, to compute the neutron distribution and related observables of calcium-48, an isotope with an atomic nucleus consisting of 20 protons and 28 neutrons.

Chemical Complexity Promises Improved Structural Alloys for Next-Gen Nuclear Energy

Energy from radiation can create imperfections in alloys, so researchers in an Energy Frontier Research Center led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are investigating ways to design structural materials that develop fewer, smaller flaws under irradiation.

A Neutrino in a Haystack: Brookhaven's Contributions to the MicroBooNE Neutrino Experiment

To uncover the secrets of neutrinos, scientists build massive detectors to help them spot these elusive particles. The latest, dubbed MicroBooNE, recently spotted its first accelerator-born neutrino event candidates at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

ORNL Tires-To-Carbon Technology Licensed to RJ Lee Group

RJ Lee Group has signed an agreement to license an invention developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory that converts waste rubber into a valuable energy storage material.