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Big PanDA and Titan Merge to Tackle Torrent of LHC's Full-Energy Collision Data

Workload handling software has broad potential to maximize use of available supercomputing resources.

The Rise and Fall of Core-Collapse Supernovae

2D and 3D models run at NERSC and Oak Ridge National Laboratory shed a new light on what fuels an exploding star.

5 Properties of Physics That Affect Your Gas Mileage

Many of the same properties of physics that allow you to fly along the freeway also affect how much gas mileage you get out of your car.

Advanced Scientific Computing Research Leadership Computing Challenge Program Announces 24 Projects at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

Each year, the ALCC program selects projects with an emphasis on high-risk, high-payoff simulations in areas directly related to the DOE mission and for broadening the community of researchers capable of using leadership computing resources.

New CMI Process Recycles Magnets From Factory Floor

A new recycling method developed by scientists at the Critical Materials Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory, recovers valuable rare-earth magnetic material from manufacturing waste and creates useful magnets out of it.

Sodium-Ion Batteries Offer Surprising Stability Over Cycles

3D measurements of microstructures reveal that sodium's larger ion size does not degrade battery materials as much as previously thought.

Scientists Propose an Enhanced New Model of the Source of a Mysterious Barrier to Fusion Known as the “Density Limit”

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a detailed model of the source of a puzzling limitation on fusion reactions.

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.

Homegrown Solution for Synchrotron Light Source

Ames Laboratory physicist Adam Kaminski turned a research challenge into the opportunity to develop an innovative technique for the study of electronic properties in new materials.

Orange is the New Red

Berkeley Lab study shows Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP) shifts more than just color for cyanobacterial photoprotection.

Magnetic Attraction

Researchers at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) are on the forefront of understanding molecular-level science in the natural environment.

Confirming Microbial Lineages Through Cultivation-Independent Means

In a recent study illuminating how novel microbial lineages are being uncovered through the use of such techniques, a team including researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, offers compelling evidence that two groups of uncultivated bacteria actually belong to a single candidate phylum called ‘Atribacteria.’