![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg KIPAC scientists have for the first time used artificial neural networks to analyze complex distortions in spacetime, called gravitational lenses.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2017/slac-gravitational-lenses-090117-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=C76B1DAC84156EC37858A6CAD1860C083ED5390ADB0F14BE0956D0E45557BB4C)
Artificial Intelligence Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10 Million Times Faster
SLAC and Stanford researchers demonstrate that brain-mimicking ‘neural networks’ can revolutionize the way astrophysicists analyze their most complex data, including extreme distortions in spacetime that are crucial for our understanding of the universe.
Read more about Artificial Intelligence Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10 Million Times Faster![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Scanning tunneling microscopy image shows a variable-width graphene nanoribbon. Atoms are visible as individual “bumps.”](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2017/blog-graphene-083017-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=2AD5AC52710212477219AA7F45F36930E41D21D86C0B37B2A913177346272C67)
Controlling Traffic on the Electron Highway: Researching Graphene
Graphene may revolutionize electronics. But first, researchers need to get its electrons under control.
Read more about Controlling Traffic on the Electron Highway: Researching Graphene![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg From left: Kaiyuan Yao, Nick Borys, and P. James Schuck, seen here at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry, measured a property in a 2-D material that could help realize new applications](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2017/lbnl-2d-materials-082917-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=BA30F3AE43F8EC70E2ED271C2D8DD2D7C392281A8854C0300A89983C4CBEFB57)
New Results Reveal High Tunability of 2-D Material
Berkeley Lab-led team also provides most precise band gap measurement yet for hotly studied monolayer moly sulfide.
Read more about New Results Reveal High Tunability of 2-D Material![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Scientists used Titan to model a supernova explosion from the collapsing core of a super-giant star.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2017/blog-supercomputers-081617-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=69CEEAA85B0D7820BDF0B91AB582EEE87A7D97F51F685BC989942F45ADD2A704)
Launching a Supercomputer: How to Set Up Some of the World’s Fastest Computers
To solve some of the world’s biggest scientific problems, you need some of the world’s biggest computers. The teams at the Department of Energy’s user facilities get these powerful supercomputers up and running.
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Meet the Director: Chuck Black
Charles (Chuck) Black, the director of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, runs his facility with staff and scientists who embrace the mission of advancing the science of nanomaterials to impact society.
Read more about Meet the Director: Chuck Black![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg This image of the NGC 1398 galaxy was taken with the Dark Energy Camera.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2017/fermilab-dark-energy-080417-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=9602E043679B9021014BBF4F10132523B29283AE0151C1793E75E49EC37E0990)
Dark Energy Survey Reveals Most Accurate Measurement of Dark Matter Structure in the Universe
New result rivals precision of cosmic microwave background measurements, supports view that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the cosmos.
Read more about Dark Energy Survey Reveals Most Accurate Measurement of Dark Matter Structure in the Universe![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Telltale signs of a lambda hyperon (Λ) decaying into a proton (p) and a pion (π-) as tracked by the Time Projection Chamber of the STAR detector.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2017/bnl-quark-gluon-080217-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=060B74BF582413EF2E8E66EF5C5B58011565C5EC03838BFE14E8E91AC444C2F8)
'Perfect Liquid' Quark-Gluon Plasma is the Most Vortical Fluid
Swirling soup of matter's fundamental building blocks spins ten billion trillion times faster than the most powerful tornado, setting new record for "vorticity."
Read more about 'Perfect Liquid' Quark-Gluon Plasma is the Most Vortical Fluid![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Scientists from DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory discovered a family of synthetic polymers that self-assemble into nanotubes with consistent diameters.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2017/blog-nanosystem-071217-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=5BC46CCA48FCC9B2620855300FDD778D98287A7525C2ED0AE375ACD09E7508A9)
No Assembly Required: Nanoparticles that Put Themselves Together
Using self-assembly, scientists are coaxing tiny particles into making new, customized materials.
Read more about No Assembly Required: Nanoparticles that Put Themselves Together![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Samples from this Ancient Roman pier, Portus Cosanus in Orbetello, Italy, were studied with X-rays at Berkeley Lab.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2017/lbnl-roman-concrete-070517-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=0AEACD7FB431E770812A7EE67BECAEC65634C985F68D39AC19B8BE5CB57D5086)
New Studies of Ancient Concrete Could Teach Us to Do as the Romans Did
Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley experiments show how natural chemistry strengthened ancient concrete.
Read more about New Studies of Ancient Concrete Could Teach Us to Do as the Romans Did![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Ecologist Dan Nelson hauling in a gill net as part of the fish population survey of the Clinch River Study.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2017/blog-ecology-062817-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=B9C61DB0EAF1E81832B5BBBB3D558879116955D0DEF46C45078AD3981E50E9CE)
Ecological Roots
How the Department of Energy’s national laboratories helped found the study of ecology.
Read more about Ecological Roots![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg An optical laser (green) excites the iron-containing active site of the protein cytochrome c, and then an X-ray laser (white) probes the iron a few femtoseconds to picoseconds later.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2017/slac-chemical-bond-062617-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=581D0530B795468FF635D3CCC8A380D60CE7C45BBEB87E2878C64082D76BE102)
How a Single Chemical Bond Balances Cells Between Life and Death
With SLAC’s X-ray laser and synchrotron, scientists measured exactly how much energy goes into keeping this crucial bond from triggering a death spiral.
Read more about How a Single Chemical Bond Balances Cells Between Life and Death![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg This diagram shows the timeline of the universe, from its beginnings in the Big Bang to today.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2017/blog-dark-energy-062117-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=43E84FF57E027B2F9DFD94D7C58130E2D3658E9632EB72A9F607AAEBCE307A69)
Our Expanding Universe: Delving into Dark Energy
Space is expanding ever more rapidly and scientists are researching dark energy to understand why.
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