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

A Quark Like No Other

University of Iowa physicist Usha Mallik is at the forefront of the search for a missing particle that could prove whether the Higgs boson—believed to give mass to all matter—exists.

Two Princeton Astrophysicists Receive Funding to Study Merging Neutron Stars

Adam Burrows, a professor of astrophysical sciences, and David Radice, an associate research scholar, have won funding for a multifaceted five-year project to investigate “some of the most explosive phenomena, some of the most violent, that occur on a regular basis in the universe,” said Burrows.

Breakthrough Could Launch Organic Electronics Beyond Cellphone Screens

A discovery by an international team of researchers from Princeton University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Humboldt University in Berlin points the way to more widespread use of an advanced technology generally known as organic electronics.

Recreating Conditions Inside Stars With Compact Lasers

A multi-institution experiment conducted at Colorado State University used smaller, compact lasers to create ultra-short laser pulses and validate numerical models measuring the irradiation intensities and the extreme pressures generated.

My Summer Learning about High-performance Computing from Argonne National Laboratory

In the computational science community, there is a need to train engineers and scientists on how to effectively use current and future high-performance computing (HPC) systems. A couple of years ago, a training program was established by the federal government that would be able to address this deficiency. This program, known as the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), contains over 100 hours of lectures and hands on training in the span of two weeks.

High-Altitude Observatory Sheds Light on Origin of Excess Anti-Matter

A mountaintop observatory in Mexico, built and operated by an international team of scientists led by the University of Maryland, has captured the first wide-angle view of gamma rays emanating from two rapidly spinning stars.

A New Window into Electron Behavior

Scientists at MIT have found a way to visualize electron behavior beneath a material’s surface. The team’s technique is based on quantum mechanical tunneling, a process by which electrons can traverse energetic barriers by simply appearing on the other side.

MSU to Establish Training Program to Address National Shortage in Accelerator Scientists, Engineers

The Accelerator Science and Engineering Traineeship program will bring together MSU’s strengths to formulate a graduate student curriculum that will be implemented by physics and astronomy faculty in the College of Natural Science, the College of Engineering and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.

Synthetic Circuits Can Harvest Light Energy

By organizing pigments on a DNA scaffold, an MIT-led team of researchers has designed a light-harvesting material that closely mimics the structure of naturally occurring photosynthetic structures.

Supercomputing Speeds Up Deep Learning Training

A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Davis and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) published the results of an effort to harness the power of supercomputers to train a deep neural network (DNN) for image recognition at rapid speed.

Learning from Photosynthesis

A new study, from Hao Yan and Neal Woodbury from ASU’s Biodesign Institute and colleagues from Harvard and MIT, outlines the design of a synthetic system for energy gathering, conversion and transport that may point the way to innovations in solar energy, materials science, nanotechnology and photonics

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LIGO Mirror Coatings Get an Upgrade with New Stanford-led National Collaboration

Stanford scientists will lead a new national cooperative effort, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration Center for Coatings Research, to improve detection of gravitational waves at the twin LIGO facilities.