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As Temperatures Rise, Soil Will Relinquish Less Carbon to the Atmosphere Than Currently Predicted

New Berkeley Lab model quantifies interactions between soil microbes and their surroundings.

INCITE Grants Awarded to 56 Computational Research Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announced 56 projects aimed at accelerating scientific discovery and innovation that will share 5.8 billion core-hours on America’s two fastest supercomputers dedicated to open science.

Around the World in 52 Months

The Department of Energy’s ARM Climate Research Facility has selected six field campaigns to take place from 2015 through most of 2019. These new efforts kick off in the summer of 2015 at the Southern Great Plans site.

Procter & Gamble and Temple University Scientists Model Skin’s Makeup Using Titan Supercomputer

Simulations run on the nation’s most powerful supercomputer for open science gave researchers a molecular-level understanding of how our skin performs some of its essential functions.

New Project Will Expand Opportunities for Biological Discovery With SLAC’s X-ray Laser

A planned experimental station at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will expand capabilities for atomic-scale explorations in human health, biology, energy and environmental science using one of the brightest X-ray sources on the planet.

Latest Supercomputers Enable High-Resolution Climate Models, Truer Simulation of Extreme Weather

Berkeley Lab researcher says climate science is entering a new golden age.

Investigating the Earth’s Inner Workings

A team is using Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) Titan supercomputer to reveal the Earth’s inner workings via adjoint tomography simulations, or monitoring the interaction of a forward wavefield, in which the waves travel from the source to the receivers, and an “adjoint” wavefield in which the waves travel inversely from the receivers to the source.

Energy Department Awards New Contract to Manage and Operate Brookhaven National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a new five-year, $3.2 billion contract to Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA) to manage and operate Brookhaven National Laboratory.

ORNL Materials Researchers Get First Look at Atom-thin Boundaries

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have made the first direct observations of a one-dimensional boundary separating two different, atom-thin materials, enabling studies of long-theorized phenomena at these interfaces.

Termite of the Sea’s Wood Destruction Strategy Revealed

For bioenergy researchers, including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, the shipworm’s destructive capabilities could prove useful for the industrial production of advanced biofuels from woody plant mass.

Discovering the Undiscovered

Researchers at the Joint Genome Institute advance new tools to fill the microbial tree of life.

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Golden Approach to High-speed DNA Reading

Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California Berkeley create unique graphene nanopores with optical antennas for DNA sequencing.