It All Comes to Light
New advances, including light sources, allow for non-destructive techniques for examining old artifacts.
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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.
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2D and 3D models run at NERSC and Oak Ridge National Laboratory shed a new light on what fuels an exploding star.
Read more about The Rise and Fall of Core-Collapse SupernovaeAdvanced 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.
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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.
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3D measurements of microstructures reveal that sodium's larger ion size does not degrade battery materials as much as previously thought.
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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.
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Researchers at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) are on the forefront of understanding molecular-level science in the natural environment.
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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.
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Berkeley Lab study shows Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP) shifts more than just color for cyanobacterial photoprotection.
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New technique combines electron microscopy and synchrotron x-rays at Brookhaven Lab to track chemical reactions under real operating conditions.
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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new method to manipulate a wide range of materials and their behavior using only a handful of helium ions.
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