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

Artificial Leaf Harnesses Sunlight for Efficient Fuel Production

Scientists at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis – a DOE Energy Innovation Hub established at Caltech – have developed the first complete, efficient, safe, integrated solar-driven system for splitting water to create hydrogen fuels.

New Model of Cosmic Stickiness Favors “Big Rip” Demise of Universe

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a new mathematical formulation of viscosity, which may lead to new insights into dark energy and possibly the fate of the universe.

MSU Marks Special Cyclotron Beam Anniversary

It was 50 years ago that the cyclotron at Michigan State University accelerated its first beam and the university and the scientific world haven’t been the same since.

In Search of an Elusive Subatomic Particle

University of California, Riverside scientists are working on the Compact Muon Sollenoid (CMS) experiment in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The team has been examining CMS data to look for evidence of a “Majorana neutrino.”

Summer Interns Get Research Experience at PPPL

Twenty-five undergraduates from colleges across the country spent this summer at the laboratory as interns, working on projects ranging from figuring out how to remotely steer a set of mirrors that will be built into the upcoming ITER fusion machine to studying how nanoparticles grow inside plasmas.

New Study Points Way to 'Filming' Molecule-Light Interactions

A new study from University of Nebraska-Lincoln physicists could inform the future production of 3-D movies starring light-driven molecular reactions that already play leading roles in photosynthesis, vision and many state-of-the-art technologies.

Physicists Catch a Magnetic Wave that Offers Promise for More Energy-Efficient Computing

A team of physicists at New York University, Stanford University, and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have taken pictures of a theorized but previously undetected magnetic wave, the discovery of which offers the potential to be an energy-efficient means to transfer data in consumer electronics.

New Material Science Research May Advance Tech Tools

Researchers from LSU, Fudan University, the University of Florida and the Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures in Nanjing, China, conducted research on materials that separate into different regions through a process called electronic phase separation, which is poorly understood.

New Catalyst Yields More Accurate PSA Test

A chemist at Michigan Technological University and a team of researchers from Louisiana State University and the University of Texas at Dallas, have developed a new catalyst that could make lab tests like the PSA much more sensitive.

Science Provides New Way to Peer Into Pores

Rice University lab finds technique to characterize nanoscale spaces in porous materials.

Move Over Arabidopsis, There’s a New Model Plant in Town

As farmers spend billions of dollars spreading nitrogen on their fields this spring, researchers at the University of Missouri are working toward less reliance on the fertilizer.

Below the Surface

A new study by a team including University of Delaware researcher Neil Sturchio and his colleagues at the Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Chicago has given scientists an unprecedented look at such detail, showing how minerals and fluids interact in extreme conditions.