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

Experiments using Diamond Anvils Yield New Insight into the Deep Earth

Earth scientists at Caltech find evidence that suggests subducting slabs of the earth's crust may generate unusual features spotted near the core.

$22 Million for Quantum Research at UChicago and National Labs

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded more than $22 million to scientists at the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory for quantum science research, spanning the search for dark matter to more powerful computing.

Rice U. Study Sheds Light On – and Through – 2D Materials

Rice University scientists have now produced a method to determine the properties of atom-thin materials that promise to refine the modulation and manipulation of light.

Success is Sweet: Researchers Unlock the Mysteries of the Sugarcane Genome

For centuries, sugarcane has supplied human societies with alcohol, biofuel, building and weaving materials, and the world’s most relied-upon source of sugar. Now, researchers have extracted a sweet scientific prize from sugarcane: its massive and complex genome sequence, which may lead to the development of hardier and more productive cultivars.

Supercomputer Predicts Optical and Thermal Properties of Complex Hybrid Materials

Materials scientists at Duke University computationally predicted the electrical and optical properties of semiconductors made from extended organic molecules sandwiched by inorganic structures.

Institute for Catalysis in Energy Processes Receives $2.8 Million Award from the Department of Energy

The $2.8 million award allows ICEP to address fundamental questions in catalysis—building on nearly two decades of leadership in a research field that is at the core of all industrial chemical processes.

MSU Nets $1.1M in DOE Grants

The four grants come from the DOE Offices of High Energy Physics, Fusion Energy Sciences, Nuclear Physics and Biological and Environmental Research, representing the breadth of research undertaken at MSU.

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Research Brief: A Warmer Climate Will Also be a Drier Climate, with Negative Impacts on Forest Growth

Warmer temperatures brought on by climate change will lead to drier soils and reduce tree photosynthesis and growth in forests later this century, according to a new University of Minnesota study published in the journal Nature.

Quantum Network to Test Unhackable Communications

Scientists at the national labs and at the University of Chicago are creating one of world’s longest fiber-optic links to ‘teleport’ information.

MSU Physicist's Subatomic Structure Study Published in Nature

A member of Mississippi State’s Department of Physics and Astronomy has been recognized on an international platform for her investigation into the subatomic structure of nuclei. Assistant Professor Lamiaa El Fassi’s research, “Probing high-momentum protons and neutrons in neutron-rich nuclei,” was published recently in the global scientific journal Nature.

High Entropy Alloys Hold the Key to Studying Dislocation Avalanches in Metals

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Tennessee, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has made it possible to understand how dislocations—in catastrophic materials failure--organize and react at nanoscale.

Self-healing Material Can Build Itself from Carbon in the Air

A material designed by MIT chemical engineers can react with carbon dioxide from the air, to grow, strengthen, and even repair itself. The polymer, which might someday be used as construction or repair material or for protective coatings, continuously converts the greenhouse gas into a carbon-based material that reinforces itself.