2018 | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)

The Weak Force: Life Couldn't Exist Without It

David Armstrong, the Chancellor Professor of Physics at William & Mary, divides his time between Small Hall at William & Mary and the Department of Energy’s Jefferson Lab where he works on experiments involving the weak force, one of the four fundamental interactions that run the universe.

Finally, a Robust Fuel Cell that Runs on Methane at Practical Temperatures

Though the cell is in the lab, it has high potential to someday electrically power homes and perhaps cars, say the researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology who led its development. In a new study in the journal Nature Energy the researchers detailed how they reimagined the entire fuel cell with the help of a newly invented fuel catalyst.

Research Uncovers the Spontaneous Polarization of Novel Ultrathin Materials

Associate professor Salvador Barraza-Lopez and Taneshwor Kaloni, a former post-doctoral researcher, studied ultrathin materials known as tin telluride (SnTe) with colleagues from the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Matter in China.

Toward Unhackable Communication: Single Particles of Light Could Bring the 'Quantum Internet'

Purdue researchers have created a new light source that generates at least 35 million photons per second, increasing the speed of quantum communication.

Doctoral Candidate Awarded Department of Energy Fellowship

University of Georgia doctoral candidate Jordan Russell was awarded a fellowship by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program.

Cornell Receives Nearly $3.5M in Federal Push for Quantum Information Research

Four Cornell researchers have received grants from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of a $218 million federal push to advance quantum information science.

Colorado State University Selected for New Nationwide High-intensity Laser Network

Colorado State University scientists are joining a new research network called LaserNetUS, established by a two-year, $6.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Duo Awarded Grant to Develop New Energy Storage Solutions

With a recent three-year, $750,000 award from the Department of Energy EPSCoR program, Xiong and co-Principal Investigator Elton Graugnard, both from the Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering, are collaborating with researchers from Argonne National Laboratory to develop cathode materials that improve the capacity and lifetime of sodium ion batteries.

Inexpensive Chip-based Device May Transform Spectrometry

A new advance by researchers at MIT could make it possible to produce tiny spectrometers that are just as accurate and powerful but could be mass produced using standard chip-making processes. This approach could open up new uses for spectrometry that previously would have been physically and financially impossible.

Stanford Study Shows Regions Increasingly Suffer Hot, Dry Conditions at the Same Time

A new study from Stanford University suggests that the kind of hot, dry conditions that can shrink crop yields, destabilize food prices and lay the groundwork for devastating wildfires are increasingly striking multiple regions simultaneously as a result of a warming climate.

Q&A: Graduate Student Awarded Department of Energy Fellowship

A graduate student here at Oregon State University was recently awarded a fellowship from the United States Department of Energy. Funded by the DOE’s office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration, the recipient of the fellowship, Lawrence Roy, will have his studies towards a doctoral degree in computer graphics paid for in full for up to four years.

Table-Top Experiment Flips Current Understanding of Solutal Convection

When Yu “Alex” Liang started graduate school at The University of Texas at Austin, he was tasked with running a straight-forward experiment to collect data on a well-understood phenomenon in fluid mechanics: how density differences influence fluid flow in a porous medium.