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

Scientists Uncover Details of Viral Infections that Drive Environmental, Human Health

New research from The Ohio State University offers a glimpse into the complexity of interactions between bacteria and the viruses – or phages – that infect them.

MSU Wins Four Top Awards From Department of Energy

Four Michigan State University students earned DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program awards for their research in various areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, making MSU the most-decorated institution represented at the program.

Massive New Dark Matter Detector Gets its 'Eyes'

Brown University researchers have assembled two massive arrays of photomultiplier tubes, powerful light sensors that will serve as the "eyes" for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector, which will start its search for dark matter particles in 2020.

‘Theory Guy’ Colin Egerer Selected for Elite Department of Energy Program

Colin Egerer, a Ph.D. student in William & Mary's Department of Physics, is one of only 60 grad students to be selected in 2018 for the DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program.

Nuclear Radiation Detecting Device Could Lead to New Homeland Security Tool

A Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory research team has developed an exceptional next-generation material for nuclear radiation detection that could provide a significantly less expensive alternative to the detectors now in commercial use.

A New Way to Provide Cooling Without Power

MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive materials and requiring no fossil fuel-generated power. The passive system, which could be used to supplement other cooling systems to preserve food and medications in hot, off-grid locations, is essentially a high-tech version of a parasol.

UW Physicists, CERN Announce Discovery of Higgs Boson Interactions

The international particle accelerator collaboration CERN announced Monday, June 4, that two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider discovered a link between the two heaviest known particles: the top quark and the Higgs boson. University of Wisconsin–Madison physicists are members of the CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN, which jointly discovered the Higgs boson in 2012.

Putting Excess Carbon Dioxide to Good Use

Professor Joel Rosenthal and his team in UD’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have discovered that bismuth has an unusual property that can be harnessed to help the environment—as a chemical “spark” or catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, into liquid fuels and industrial chemicals.

USU Biochemist and Colleagues Imagine World Beyond Fossil Fuel

Utah State University biochemist Lance Seefeldt and other university and national laboratory scientists report on the field of nitrogen activation chemistry and future directions for understanding critical, nitrogen transformation reactions.

PROSPECTing for Antineutrinos

The Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT), located at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has begun taking data to study electron antineutrinos that are emitted from nuclear decays in the reactor to search for so-called sterile neutrinos and to learn about the underlying nuclear reactions that power fission reactors.

Princeton Senior’s Thesis Project Makes Material Difference in Quest for Fusion Energy

For her senior thesis, Princeton University undergraduate Meagan Yeh worked with researchers to test materials at the University of California-San Diego and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory for possible use in a fusion reactor.

Columbia Researchers Squeeze Light into Nanoscale Devices and Circuits

Team is first to directly image propagation and dynamics of graphene plasmons at very low temperatures; findings could impact optical communications and signal processing.