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

New Agreement with National Lab Opens Doors for UO Scientists

A new agreement between the University of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, will allow scientists to obtain joint appointments that bridge the two research institutions.

New Record for Fusion

A team of scientists and engineers at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center set a new world record for plasma pressure in the Institute’s Alcator C-Mod tokamak nuclear fusion reactor on the final day of operation.

MIT Undergrad Cracks Chemical Mystery

A research team featuring scientists from MIT and Penn State University finds enzyme “cannibalizes” itself to perform an essential reaction.

Robert Harrison Named Chief Architect of DOE National Project to Bolster High-Performance Computing for Energy Applications

Robert Harrison, Director of Stony Brook University’s Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS), has been named the chief architect of a national effort funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to improve the scale, performance, accessibility and portability of high-performance computational chemistry.

U of A Graduate Student Selected for DOE Science Research Award

Raymond Walter, a doctoral student in physics and mathematics, is the first student from the University of Arkansas selected for a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Research Award.

Energy Award Supports Research on New Method of Making Ammonia

University of Arkansas engineering professor Lauren Greenlee and her colleagues at Case Western Reserve and Pennsylvania State universities have received a $599,373 award from the U.S. Department of Energy to study an alternative method for making ammonia.

USU Biochemists Describe Light-Driven Conversion of CO2 to Fuel

By way of a light-driven bacterium, Utah State University biochemists are a step closer to cleanly converting harmful carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion into usable fuels.

New Approach to Determining How Atoms Are Arranged in Materials

Researchers from North Carolina State University, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a novel approach to materials characterization, using Bayesian statistical methods to glean new insights into the structure of materials.

Sponge Creates Steam Using Ambient Sunlight

MIT engineers have invented a bubble-wrapped, sponge-like device that soaks up natural sunlight and heats water to boiling temperatures, generating steam through its pores.

Scripps Florida Study Finds 'Missing Evolutionary Link' of a Widely Used Natural Drug Source

A study from scientists on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has now filled in a missing piece of the evolutionary puzzle, determining a previously unknown structure of a family of proteins that are key to making these compounds.

Light and Matter Merge in Quantum Coupling

Rice University physicists probe photon-electron interactions in vacuum cavity experiments which could help advance technologies like quantum computers and communications by revealing new phenomena to those who study cavity quantum electrodynamics and condensed matter physics.

A Rare Iodine Polymer Discovery is Key to Starch-Iodine Mystery

In the pursuit of a new class of photovoltaic materials, UC Santa Barbara researchers used Raman spectroscopy to study the crystalline structure of polyiodide chains.