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

Scientist at Work: To Take Atomic-scale Pictures of Tiny Crystals, Use a Huge, Kilometer-long Synchrotron

It turns out to be fairly complicated to figure out how electricity will flow through materials – a crucial question for designing new electronics and semiconductor materials.

Reverse Engineering Reveals Pine Tree's Chemical Production — Worth Billions

Washington State University researchers have reverse engineered the way a pine tree produces a resin, which could serve as an environmentally friendly alternative to a range of fossil‑fuel based products worth billions of dollars.

Taming Turbulence: Seeking to Make Complex Simulations a Breeze

An improved model for how shear-flow turbulence changes in different systems will more easily address previously intractable problems for understanding phenomena such as star formation and the dynamics of galaxies without the need for expensive supercomputers.

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.

Researchers Create Tiny Droplets of Early Universe Matter

Researchers at CU Boulder and colleagues at Vanderbilt University have created tiny droplets of the ultra-hot matter that once filled the early universe, forming three distinct shapes and sizes: circles, ellipses and triangles.

SBU Physicists Among BNL Research Group Studying the Perfect Fluid

Researchers from Stony Brook University are among a group of nuclear physicists analyzing data from the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) — a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Results of their work provide additional evidence that collisions of miniscule projectiles with gold nuclei create tiny specks of the perfect fluid that filled the early universe.

System Monitors Radiation Damage to Materials in Real-time

Researchers at MIT and Sandia National Laboratories have developed, tested, and made available a new system that can monitor radiation-induced changes continuously, providing more useful data much faster than traditional methods.

Sasha Tchekhovskoy Receives High-Performance Computing Award

Alexander “Sasha” Tchekhovskoy was granted the highly-competitive 2019 Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) Award for his research proposal,Simulating Neutron Star Binary Merger Remnant Disks and Tilted Thin Disks.

UM Rosenstiel School Professor Receives Over $650,000 in Funding for Climate Forecasting

University of Miami (UM) Professor Ben Kirtman received more than $650,000 in funding for his work to improve regional and global climate forecasting. Kirtman, who has been at the UM Rosenstiel School for over 10 years, is a professor of Atmospheric Sciences and director of the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS).

Caltech Startup Aims to Make Solar Panels More Efficient

Technology developed at Caltech seeks to improve the efficiency of solar panels by tweaking the architecture of the metal-grid layout of individual cells.

Stanford Researchers Make Movies of Photochemistry in Single Nanoparticles

Stanford researchers retooled an electron microscope to work with visible light and gas flow, making it possible to watch a photochemical reaction as it swept across a nanoparticle the size of a single cold virus.

Molecular Virologists Fight Influenza at the Molecular Level

In research to improve influenza therapies against H7N9 and other influenza strains, molecular virologist Chad Petit, Ph.D., and his University of Alabama at Birmingham colleagues have detailed the binding site and mechanism of inhibition for two small-molecule experimental inhibitors of influenza viruses.