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

Acid Test

New Energy Frontier Research Center led by Georgia Tech tackles materials that tackle pollutants.

From Metal to Insulator and Back Again

New work from Carnegie’s Russell Hemley and Ivan Naumov hones in on the physics underlying the recently discovered fact that some metals stop being metallic under pressure.

UGA Researchers Growing Trees Faster and Easier to Turn Into Fuel

A team of researchers at the University of Georgia and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Science Center in Tennessee have surprising answers about the potential to manipulate the genetics in trees to work to our advantage.

1st Proton Collisions at the World’s Largest Science Experiment Expected to Start the First or Second Week of June

First collisions of protons at the world’s largest science experiment are expected to start the first or second week of June, according to a senior research scientist with CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.

Dull Glow of Forest Yields Orbital Tracking of Photosynthesis

A research team led by geoscientists from Brown University and the Marine Biological Laboratory has provided some crucial ground-truth for a method of measuring plant photosynthesis on a global scale from low-Earth orbit.

MSU Engineering Student Awarded National Computational Science Fellowship

Zane Crawford, an Honors College senior majoring in electrical engineering, has earned a Computational Science Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Discovery Changes How Scientists Examine Rarest Elements of Periodic Table

A little-known element called californium is making big waves in how scientists look at the periodic table. According to new research by a Florida State University professor, californium is what’s known to be a transitional element, meaning it links one part of the Periodic Table of Elements to the next.

Plugging Up Leaky Graphene

Engineers at MIT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals have devised a technique to create a relatively large, defect-free graphene membrane, which may enable faster, more durable water filters.

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Louisiana Company Licenses LSU Physicists’ Industry-Changing Discovery

LSU Physics Professor Shane Stadler and colleagues discovered a breakthrough material that may change the heating and cooling industry.

Two UCSB Professors Receive Early Career Research Awards

The Department of Energy’s award for young scientists acknowledges UC Santa Barbara’s standing as a top tier research institution.

Engineering the Smallest Crack in the World

A new procedure developed by nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego will enable researchers to fabricate smaller, faster, and more powerful nanoscale devices ─ and do so with molecular control and precision.

Novel Crumpling Method Takes Flat Graphene From 2D to 3D

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a unique single-step process to achieve three-dimensional (3D) texturing of graphene and graphite.