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

Protecting Plants From Stealthy Diseases

New research by a team of international scientists led by Michigan State University has engineered the receptor for jasmonate, a plant hormone that plays a central role in plant defense, to fend off stealthy attacks from highly evolved pathogens.

Lack of ZZZZs May Zap Cell Growth, Brain Activity

Lack of adequate sleep can do more than just make you tired. It could short-circuit your system and interfere with a fundamental cellular process that drives physical growth, physiological adaptation, and even brain activity, according to a new University of Tennessee study.

Purdue Researchers Observe Phase Transition Thought Impossible

A Purdue University-led team of researchers observed electrons transition from a topologically ordered phase to a broken symmetry phase.

Scientists Predict Cool New Phase of Superionic Ice

Scientists have predicted a new phase of superionic ice, a special form of ice that could exist on Uranus and Neptune, in a theoretical study performed by a team of researchers at Princeton University.

Positrons are Plentiful in Ultra-Intense Laser Blasts

Physicists from Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin have found a new recipe for using intense lasers to create positrons — the antiparticle of electrons — in record numbers and density.

Researchers Create Better Algorithm for Simulating Particles in Fermi Sea

A North Carolina State University physicist and his German colleagues have created a new, more precise algorithm for simulating particle interactions when a single impurity is introduced into a Fermi sea.

DOE Funding Leads to New Technology that is Revolutionizing Chemical Analysis

A universal carbon detection technology discovered by researchers at the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI), an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Basic Energy Sciences, is the basis for a newly developed reactor technology commercialized by Activated Research Company (ARC).

ISU Faculty Contribute to Large Hadron Collider, ATLAS

Jim Cochran, a professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University, not only has the responsibilities of a professor but also helps oversee the Large Hadron Collider and the U.S. ATLAS experiment, two of the largest science experiments of all time in terms of scale.

Pineapple Genome Offers Insight into Photosynthesis in Drought-Tolerant Plants

By sequencing its genome, scientists at the University of Illinois are homing in on the genes and genetic pathways that allow the juicy pineapple plant to thrive in water-limited environments.

WSU Researcher Part of $8M Marine Ecosystems Grant

Washington State University is part of an $8 million effort to accelerate development of experimental model systems in marine microbial ecology.

UW Team Refrigerates Liquids with a Laser for the First Time

University of Washington researchers are the first to solve a decades-old puzzle — figuring out how to make a laser refrigerate water and other liquids under real-world conditions.

Purdue's C3Bio to Host U.S.-France Science and Technology Workshop

Purdue's Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio) and Global Engineering Program are hosting the U.S.-France Science & Technology Workshop on Bioenergy this week, focusing on scientific breakthroughs needed to build the 21st century energy economy.