2017 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

New Study Looks Deeper Into Atoms Than Ever Before

Researchers at Binghamton University and the Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed a never before seen atomic transformation that may take place in many catalytic reactions.

UM Physicists Part of New Effort to Explore Nature of Matter

Physicists from the University of Mississippi have played key roles in the hardware development and data analysis for the Muon g-2 experiment, and the project’s central component traveled through northeast Mississippi on a month-long journey from New York to the Chicago suburbs.

'Big Science' Efforts Shift into High Gear at Fermilab, NIU Faculty and Student Scientists Reap the Benefits

Some of the world’s largest and most fascinating experiments—the kind that involve hundreds of scientists and tackle mysteries of the universe—are happening practically in Northern Illinois University’s own back yard, creating cutting-edge research opportunities for faculty and students alike.

Rising CO2 Leading to Changes in Land Plant Photosynthesis

Researchers led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have determined that major changes in plant behavior have occurred over the past 40 years, using measurements of subtle changes in the carbon dioxide (CO2) currently found in the atmosphere.

Perspectives on Building Nanofactories for Energy and Medical Uses

At the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory (PRL), scientists are learning how bacterial nanofactories are constructed in nature. Recent experiments show we could engineer their building blocks into new structures, for useful applications.

UCLA Physicists Propose New Theories of Black Holes from the Very Early Universe

‘Primordial black holes,’ believed to have formed shortly after the Big Bang, might explain how gold, platinum and uranium are created.

Hints from Hemoglobin Lead to Better Carbon Monoxide Storage

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Turin, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have shown that cooperative MOF adsorbents can be built by design to target key industrially relevant molecules for separation, in a fundamental new mechanism.

Amorphous Diamond Synthesized

A team of Carnegie high-pressure physicists have created a form of carbon that’s hard as diamond, but amorphous, meaning it lacks the large-scale structural repetition of a diamond’s crystalline structure.

ASU Team Shines New Light on Photosynthesis

A team of scientists from ASU’s School of Molecular Sciences and Pennsylvania State University has taken us a step closer to unlocking the secrets of photosynthesis, and possibly to cleaner fuels.

Cyborg Bacteria Turn Into Tiny, Zero-Waste Solar Panels

To help humans capture more of the sun’s energy than natural photosynthesis can, UC Berkeley scientists have taught bacteria to cover themselves in tiny, highly efficient solar panels to produce useful chemical compounds.

Researchers Report Breakthrough in Magnesium Batteries

Researchers at the University of Houston report the discovery of a new design for the battery cathode, drastically increasing the storage capacity and upending conventional wisdom that the magnesium-chloride bond must be broken before inserting magnesium into the host.

Texas A&M Physicist Rupak Mahapatra Earns DOE Grant for Detector Research

Mahapatra, a 2010 DOE Early Career Research Award recipient and a principal investigator since 2003 with SuperCDMS and the affiliated SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment, will receive $460,000 through the Office of High Energy Physics in support of his proposal, Ultra-low Threshold Cryogenic High Voltage Detectors for WIMP Search and Coherent Neutrino Scattering Experiments.