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

UNG Alumni Selected for Internships with Department of Energy

Recent University of North Georgia (UNG) graduates Katie McCullough, Kimberly Wright and Sonia Alcantar were awarded internships with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to study at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington.

UConn Grad Student Headed to Brookhaven Lab

Daniel Hoying has received the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award for his work in high energy physics.

Researchers Develop Groundbreaking Process for Creating Ultra-Selective Separation Membranes

A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has developed a groundbreaking one-step, crystal growth process for making ultra-thin layers of material with molecular-sized pores.

Mapping the Effects of Crystal Defects

New research offers insights into how crystal dislocations — a common type of defect in materials — can affect electrical and heat transport through crystals, at a microscopic, quantum mechanical level.

Solid Metal has "Structural Memory" of its Liquid State

New work from a team including Carnegie’s Guoyin Shen and Yoshio Kono used high pressure and temperature to reveal a kind of “structural memory” in samples of the metal bismuth, a discovery with great electrical engineering potential.

Quantum Computing in Infinite Dimensions

Researchers at the University of Tennessee Knoxville have developed mathematical processes that take machine learning into infinite dimensions, with the potential to speed up computers far beyond conventional machines and make data storage and processing cheaper and more energy efficient.

Genome Sequence of Fuel-Producing Alga Announced

The genome of the fuel-producing green microalga Botryococcus braunii has been sequenced by a team of researchers led by a group at Texas A&M AgriLife Research.

New Partners in Research

A new partnership between the University of Delaware and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, announced last week during a two-day Innovation in Materials Science workshop, has just that sort of potential.

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Study Shows Proteins May Prevent Dysfunction and Disease by Relaxing

A new study by a team of University of Chicago and Notre Dame researchers suggests many proteins remain expanded in the cell, rather than contracting into tight folded shapes.

Filling the Early Universe with Knots Can Explain Why the World is Three-Dimensional

An international team of physicists has developed an out-of-the-box theory that shortly after it popped into existence 13.8 billion years ago the universe was filled with knots formed from flexible strands of energy called flux tubes that link elementary particles together.

Atomic Imperfections Move Quantum Communication Network Closer to Reality

An international team led by the University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering has discovered how to manipulate a weird quantum interface between light and matter in silicon carbide along wavelengths used in telecommunications.

Kent State Faculty and Students Play a Key Role in ‘Little Bang’ Being Observed for the First Time With Ultra-High Precision

Kent State University faculty and students in the Department of Physics, in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently played a key role in using a new silicon detector technology to examine nuclear collisions that recreate the Big Bang on a tiny scale at Brookhaven National Laboratory.