2016 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

Scientists Say Many Plants Don't Respond to Warming as Thought

Researchers have completed the most comprehensive global study of its kind, finding that increases in plant respiration may not be as big as previously estimated.

MIT Scientists Find Weird Quantum Effects, Even Over Hundreds of Miles

MIT physicists have found that subatomic particles called neutrinos can be in superposition, without individual identities, when traveling hundreds of miles, and not just at quantum, subatomic scales.

Chemistry Researchers Unveil New, Detailed Images of Initial Stages of DNA Transcription

An unprecedented molecular view of the critical early events in gene expression, a process essential for all life, has been provided by researchers at Georgia State University, the University of California at Berkeley and Northwestern University.

A Metal That Behaves Like Water

Researchers at Harvard University and Raytheon BBN Technology describe new behaviors and new ways to measure the revolutionary material graphene.

Becoming Crystal Clear

Using state-of-the-art theoretical methods, UCSB researchers have identified a specific type of defect in the atomic structure of a light-emitting diode (LED) that results in less efficient performance.

Physicists Use Electrons to Record More ‘Frames’ of Atomic Motion

By firing laser-triggered electrons fast enough to make one second seem like 150,000 years, physicists from UNL and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have advanced efforts to record the molecular reactions that drive countless chemical and biological processes.

A Movie of the Microworld: Physicists Create Nanoparticle Picture Series

Kansas State University physicists collaboratively have developed a method for taking X-ray images that show the explosion of superheated nanoparticles at the femtosecond level.

Gold Star: Seeking the Origin of Gold in the Universe

Michigan State University researchers, working with colleagues from Technical University Darmstadt in Germany, are zeroing in on the answer to one of science’s most puzzling questions: Where did heavy elements, such as gold, originate?

Perfecting a Viral Pack Mule

A new study at The Scripps Research Institute shows that a hollowed-out version of cowpea mosaic virus could be useful in human therapies.

Lehigh Scientists Extend the Reach of Single Crystals

Materials scientists and physicists at Lehigh have demonstrated a new method of making single crystals that could enable a wider range of materials to be used in microelectronics, solar energy devices and other high-technology applications.

Spinning Better Electronic Devices

A team of researchers, led by a group at the University of California, Riverside, have demonstrated for the first time the transmission of electrical signals through insulators in a sandwich-like structure, a development that could help create more energy efficient electronic devices.

VCU Study Marks Potential Breakthrough in Search for Better Lithium and Magnesium Ion Batteries

New Virginia Commonwealth University research demonstrates how to stabilize a multiply charged anion (negative ion), a fundamental research question and one that could help in the development of better lithium and magnesium ion batteries.