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

End-Of-Century Manhattan Climate Index To Resemble Oklahoma City Today

Models by scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science suggest that by the end of the century, climate changes could cause Manhattan to see a similar use of heaters and air conditioners as Oklahoma City sees today.

‘Littlest’ Quark-Gluon Plasma Revealed by Physicists Using Large Hadron Collider

Researchers at the University of Kansas working with an international team at the Large Hadron Collider have produced quark-gluon plasma — a state of matter thought to have existed right at the birth of the universe — with fewer particles than previously thought possible.

Physicists Fine Tune Control of Agile Exotic Materials

Physicists at the University of California, San Diego, have found a way to control the length and strength of waves of atomic motion that have promising potential uses such as fine-scale imaging and the transmission of information within tight spaces.

On the Precision Frontier: A New Calculation Holds Promise for New Physics

A team of theoretical high-energy physicists in the Fermilab Lattice and MILC Collaborations has published a new high-precision calculation that could significantly advance the indirect search for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM).

New Grants Aid Chemist’s Research, Support Student Learning

A quantum chemistry researcher at UC Merced and her colleagues at Stanford University and Washington State University (WSU) are receiving $1.3 million from the Department of Energy over the next three years to model charge and energy transfer for molecules in solutions.

Silver Nanowires Demonstrate Unexpected Self-Healing Mechanism

Results by researchers at Northwestern University indicate that silver nanowires could potentially withstand strong cyclic loads for long periods of time, which is a key attribute needed for flexible electronics.

How Some Beetles Produce a Scalding Defensive Spray

Thanks to research by a team at MIT, the University of Arizona, and Brookhaven National Laboratory, new analysis shows how bombardier beetles produce an explosive defensive chemical jet.

World’s Smallest Spirals Could Guard Against Identity Theft

Students and faculty at Vanderbilt University fabricated these tiny Archimedes’ spirals and then used ultrafast lasers at Vanderbilt and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, to characterize their optical properties.

Wirth Receives Top DOE Honor, Credits UT-ORNL Partnership

The US Department of Energy has named Brian Wirth, a joint UT College of Engineering and Oak Ridge National Laboratory appointee, an Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award winner for 2014.

Researchers Synthesize Magnetic Nanoparticles That Could Offer Alternative to Rare Earth Magnets

A team of scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University has synthesized a powerful new magnetic material that could reduce the dependence of the United States and other nations on rare earth elements produced by China.

A Co-op Conducting Trailblazing Research For a Brighter Tomorrow

Drexel University senior Matthew Parsons is completing a co-op at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab as a computational physicist, researching nuclear fusion and creating models of plasma disruptions.

Pushing the Boundaries of Atomic Nuclei Research

A team of researchers, led by Gaute Hagen of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and includes two Michigan State University nuclear physicists – Morten Hjorth-Jensen and Witold Nazarewicz – has uncovered some of the mysteries of the nucleus of the atom.