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

In ‘Nature’: Drilling Down into the Secrets of the Weak Force

William & Mary has a large number of authors on a “Nature” paper reporting accurate measurement of the weak force at the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

The Search for Dark Matter

The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) at the University of Washington recently created an ultra-sensitive technology that could potentially detect axions, the building blocks of dark matter. This discovery could pave the way for scientists to uncover how the universe is organized and what dark matter actually is.

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Scientists Pinpoint Energy Flowing Through Vibrations in Superconducting Crystals

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory including a Stony Brook grad student have tracked never-before-seen interactions between electrons and the crystal lattice structure of copper-oxide superconductors.

My Internship as a Computational Engineer

Florida International University student Longfei Wei completed an internship at Argonne National Laboratory, working with ANL researchers to test power measurement data and develop machine learning algorithms able to forecast future renewable energy generation.

Two CU Boulder Graduate Students Receive Department of Energy Awards

The University of Colorado Boulder recipients are Andrew Johnston Hess, who will be hosted at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Garrett Rue, who will be hosted at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

New CRISPR Technology ‘Knocks Out’ Yeast Genes With Single-Point Precision

The CRISPR-Cas9 system has given researchers the power to precisely edit selected genes. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois have used it to develop a technology that can target any gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and turn it off by deleting single letters from its DNA sequence.

Atomically Thin Magnetic Device Could Lead to New Memory Technologies

Magnetic materials are the backbone of modern digital information technologies, such as hard-disk storage. A University of Washington-led team has now taken this one step further by encoding information using magnets that are just a few layers of atoms in thickness.

Engineers Studying Nanodefects Suspected of Causing Early Failures of Electrical Materials

Xiaoli Tan, an Iowa State University professor of materials science and engineering, is working to be the first to see and record how nanoscale defects in electrical insulators may evolve into material breakdowns.

Good Things Come in Threes: Another Physics Student Wins DOE Award

For the third consecutive year, an NIU student in physics has landed a prestigious graduate student research award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.

Theory for One Type of Superconductor Solves Puzzle in Another

A 2017 theory proposed by Rice University physicists to explain the contradictory behavior of an iron-based high-temperature superconductor is helping solve a puzzle in a different type of unconventional superconductor, the “heavy fermion” compound known as CeCu2Si2.

When Lipids Meet Hormones: Plants' Answer to Complex Stresses

MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory scientists are connecting how plants harvest their own chloroplasts - photosynthesis machines that make their food - to help defend against outside threats.

DOE Supports PhD Student’s Research on an Elementary Particle

Samuel Homiller, a PhD student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Arts & Sciences at Stony Brook University is among a group of students selected nationally as a recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program award.