New Training Videos Leverage ESnet’s Expertise to Improve Network Performance around the World
The Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network, or ESnet, and the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) at the University of Oregon are teaming up to create an extensive video training library to help organizations improve the performance of their networks by deploying the perfSONAR network measurement tools and the Science DMZ network architecture.
Read more about New Training Videos Leverage ESnet’s Expertise to Improve Network Performance around the WorldComparing Fungal Secretions to Uncover Carbon Compound Degradation Pathways
A team led by researchers at Harvard University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) conducted a comparative analysis of the secretomes of four recently-isolated and sequenced filamentous Ascomycete fungi to learn more about the variety of pathways they deploy to break down carbon compounds.
Read more about Comparing Fungal Secretions to Uncover Carbon Compound Degradation PathwaysNew ORNL Tool Probes for Genes Linked to Toxic Methylmercury
Environmental scientists can more efficiently detect genes required to convert mercury in the environment into more toxic methylmercury with molecular probes developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Read more about New ORNL Tool Probes for Genes Linked to Toxic MethylmercuryScientists Determine Structure of Enzyme Linked with Key Cell-Signaling Protein
Findings aid understanding of how modifications to cell-signaling protein affect its action in turning genes on and off; could also point to new targets for drugs to fight cancer.
Read more about Scientists Determine Structure of Enzyme Linked with Key Cell-Signaling ProteinEnergy Department Awards $40 Million for Research to Support Waste Cleanup at DOE Nuclear Sites
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today announced up to $40 million in awards for four new Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to support the Department of Energy (DOE)’s environmental management and nuclear cleanup mission.
Read more about Energy Department Awards $40 Million for Research to Support Waste Cleanup at DOE Nuclear SitesNominations for the 2016 E. O. Lawrence Award Are Now Open
The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award is bestowed by the Secretary of DOE to mid-career scientists and engineers in recognition of exceptional scientific, technical, and/or engineering contributions. Nominations are being accepted through October 31, 2016.
Read more about Nominations for the 2016 E. O. Lawrence Award Are Now OpenNominations for the 2016 Enrico Fermi Award Are Now Open
The Enrico Fermi Award recognizes outstanding contributions and achievements that are particularly distinguished and demonstrate scientific, technical, management or policy leadership. Nominations are being accepted through October 31, 2016.
Read more about Nominations for the 2016 Enrico Fermi Award Are Now OpenDark Energy Measured with Record-Breaking Map of 1.2 Million Galaxies
A team of hundreds of physicists and astronomers have announced results from the largest-ever, three-dimensional map of distant galaxies.
Read more about Dark Energy Measured with Record-Breaking Map of 1.2 Million GalaxiesPPPL Launches Expanded New Laboratory for Research on the Use of Plasma to Synthesize Nanoparticles
The collaborative facility, called the “Laboratory for Plasma Nanosynthesis,” is nearly three times the size of the original nanolab(link is external), which remains in operation, and launches a new era in PPPL research on plasma nanosynthesis
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Additive manufacturing techniques featuring atomic precision could one day create materials with Legos flexibility and Terminator toughness, according to researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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In a new study, researchers at Argonne have developed a rational approach to optimizing the arrangement of defects in commercial high-temperature superconducting wires to enhance their current-carrying capacity.
Read more about Scientists Optimize Defects for Better Superconducting EffectsNew Discovery Could Better Predict How Semiconductors Weather Abuse
Berkeley Lab scientists at DOE’s Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis are working to improve systems that efficiently convert sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into fuel.
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