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Dark Energy Survey Offers New View of Dark Matter Halos

Using data from the first year of the Dark Energy Survey, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago provide evidence that dark matter halos around galaxy clusters have an edge due to the “splashback effect.”

Delving Into the Atomic Realm

Using a one-of-a-kind, handmade microscope, Wilson Ho, University of California, Irvine’s Donald Bren Professor of Physics & Astronomy and Chemistry, and his graduate students succeeded in imaging halogen bonds in real space.

New Porous Solids May Lead to Better Drugs

An international team of researchers, led by Mark E. Davis at Caltech, has succeeded in making the first chiral molecular sieves. This discovery opens new areas of investigation in both chemistry and biology, and has broad implications for pharmaceutical companies and other specialized chemical manufacturers.

GLBRC Celebrates 1,000th Publication

The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), one of three bioenergy research centers established in 2007 by the Biological and Environmental Research program in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science, recently published its 1,000th scientific paper.

Rutgers Physics Student Wins Three National Graduate Fellowships

Jennifer Coulter, a senior honored with a prestigious Goldwater scholarship last year, chose the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. She will begin her studies in the applied physics program at Harvard University this fall and pursue a doctorate in physics.

Scientists Find New Method to Control Electronic Properties of Nanocrystals

Researchers from Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered new effects of an important method for modulating semiconductors.

In Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, CSU Science Rises to Top

Colorado State University scientists are working on an international neutrino science collaboration, DUNE, that will send neutrino beams from Fermilab to the Sanford Underground Research Facility

Examining Exploding Stars Through the Atomic Nucleus

Michigan State University researchers investigated stellar production of the radioactive isotope aluminum-26 present in the Milky Way and concluded that up to 30 percent could be produced in novae; the rest must be produced in other sources like supernovae.

In a Possible Step Forward for Gene Therapy, Stanford Researchers Made Mice Glow Like Fireflies

A collaboration between chemists and gene therapy experts produced a new way of inserting the code for modified proteins into the cells of mice. If successful in humans, the technique could be useful for vaccines or cancer therapies.

Chemical Engineering and Chemistry Researchers at Pitt and Penn State Develop Controlled Delivery of Particles via Fluid Flow

Capitalizing on previous studies in self-powered chemo-mechanical movement, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering and Penn State University’s Department of Chemistry have developed a novel method of transporting particles that utilizes chemical reactions to drive fluid flow within microfluidic devices.

New Delta Scuti: Rare Pulsating Star 7,000 Light Years Away is 1 of Only 7 in Milky Way

Discovered at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, a star — as big as or bigger than our sun — in the Pegasus constellation is expanding and contracting in three different directions simultaneously on a scale of once every 2.5 hours, the result of heating and cooling of hydrogen fuel burning 28 million degrees Fahrenheit at its core.

Bright Lights, Big Science: Joel Williams Helping Unleash Some of the World’s Brightest X-rays

Thanks to a DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research award, Joel Williams, a Colorado State University electrical engineering graduate student, is spending the next few months at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on the design of an X-ray free-electron laser.