![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Inside the first ProtoDUNE detector, before it was filled with liquid argon.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/fermi-dune-091918-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=6F84CC5317F098836494FDFBA9D706AAE9F76D2D40524297CE4BA77B02DE30B9)
First Particle Tracks Seen in Prototype for International Neutrino Experiment
The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of a new chapter in the story of the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).
Read more about First Particle Tracks Seen in Prototype for International Neutrino Experiment![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg In this artist’s rendering, ultraviolet light is converted by nanoparticles (black dots) into visible light.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/anl-photodetectors-091218-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=0AD7B08AF0D58ED34BB03919253BD6169D0BA282177EC14F159C8F06932235AB)
A Trick of the Light
Argonne researchers are using nanoparticles to make photodetectors better able to handle the ultraviolet radiation produced in high-energy physics experiments.
Read more about A Trick of the Light![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg The inside of a mosquito as it uses the pumping system in its head to drink.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/blog-insects-082918-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=AA5BC7D0BD844E38507533C98B7EA4C6A2A073546F5B0B8FF6157E303D6F400E)
When Your X-Ray Subject Has Wings: Peering Inside Insects with the Advanced Photon Source
One of the world’s most powerful X-rays is making it possible for scientists to see inside insects in real-time.
Read more about When Your X-Ray Subject Has Wings: Peering Inside Insects with the Advanced Photon Source![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg This event display from ATLAS shows a proton-proton collision inside the Large Hadron Collider that has characteristics of a Higgs decaying into two bottom quarks.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/fermi-higgs-082818-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=2E608248AA7BBBB1A215BD0D55769E2A320F2A12E493DC2B47C172C090F6AB2E)
LHC Scientists Detect Most Favored Higgs Decay
Today at CERN, the Large Hadron Collider collaborations ATLAS and CMS jointly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson transforming into bottom quarks as it decays.
Read more about LHC Scientists Detect Most Favored Higgs Decay![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Jasmine Hatcher's work in Brookhaven's Medical Isotope Research and Production Program focuses on extracting Actinium 225, a rare radioactive element that can be used in cancer radiation therapy.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/bnl-graduate-students-082718-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=3980DE08F264CB825F2D3C787EF33332031004CC898106AA5ABC3E7C76AA65B1)
Meet Jasmine Hatcher and Trishelle Copeland-Johnson
Graduate students reflect on launching their research careers at national laboratories.
Read more about Meet Jasmine Hatcher and Trishelle Copeland-Johnson![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg One of the Iowa corn field soil sampling sites used to generate data for the Great Prairie Metagenome Grand Challenge.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/blog-great-prairie-082218-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=AADA373F873D452CBAF960B6BF27644D22AA84969793691EFD0D3C0691F2347C)
From Great Prairie to Gigabytes: Sequencing the Genomes of a Microbial Ecosystem
Scientists are studying microbes in the Great Prairie of the American Midwest to understand the role these tiny organisms play in its ecology and productivity.
Read more about From Great Prairie to Gigabytes: Sequencing the Genomes of a Microbial Ecosystem![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg The artistic representation illustrates a measurement of a beam in a particle accelerator, demonstrating the beam’s structural complexity increases when measured in progressively higher dimensions.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/ornl-six-dimensions-081318-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=78067D050F1A7D3883D7363D4B1CDB5D58634B2867227F8BEB692901A4B5DCDF)
UT-ORNL Team Makes First Particle Accelerator Beam Measurement in Six Dimensions
The first full characterization measurement of an accelerator beam in six dimensions will advance the understanding and performance of current and planned accelerators around the world.
Read more about UT-ORNL Team Makes First Particle Accelerator Beam Measurement in Six Dimensions![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Plants in the warmest of several study areas at the SPRUCE experimental site remained green and functional up to six weeks longer than plants growing at ambient temperatures.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/ornl-peatland-plants-081018-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=EA30C2D51A9FDF9810060AC8B886207BC4ACE36D326B81D09A5020070BC3173C)
Hotter Temperatures Extend Growing Season for Peatland Plants
A futuristic experiment simulating warmer environmental conditions has shown that peatland vegetation responds to higher temperatures with an earlier and longer growth period.
Read more about Hotter Temperatures Extend Growing Season for Peatland Plants![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg An illustration shows how diamondoids (left), the tiniest possible specks of diamond, were used to seed the growth of nanosized diamond crystals (right).](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/slac-synthetic-diamonds-080618-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=AD77296A0548C43EDF527B12CB096DBC45444B74382760ABAA4F07AF48DA2A18)
In a First, Scientists Precisely Measure How Synthetic Diamonds Grow
A SLAC-Stanford study reveals exactly what it takes for diamond to crystallize around a “seed” cluster of atoms.
Read more about In a First, Scientists Precisely Measure How Synthetic Diamonds Grow![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Dead leaves are a common source of carbon that makes its way into the soil and then into the atmosphere.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/pnnl-soil-080218-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=67BB7E9D371BE89E5E6F1D7F99338341FE6AFDE128DC59F8F9D39FB646524369)
As Temperatures Rise, Earth's Soil is 'Breathing' More Heavily
Study suggests carbon stored in soil is entering atmosphere faster, thanks to microbes.
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Quantum Computing: Learning to Speak a Whole New Technology
Before using quantum computers for scientific discovery, scientists need to first create the foundations for their computer languages.
Read more about Quantum Computing: Learning to Speak a Whole New Technology![pnnl-calendar-010515-headliner.jpg Berkeley Lab researchers Francesca Toma (left) and Johanna Eichhorn used a photoconductive atomic force microscope to better understand materials for artificial photosynthesis.](/-/media/_/images/banner-images/2018/lbnl-nanoscale-imaging-071918-thumb.jpg?h=75&w=135&la=en&hash=E51B1492C5EC40DE233F0FE985DE3B09D5842FD5317100C2CC5FDAD0994E4A97)
Splitting Water: Nanoscale Imaging Yields Key Insights
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have pioneered a technique that uses nanoscale imaging to understand how local, nanoscale properties can affect a material’s macroscopic performance.
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