DOE Newswire Report News
Landmark yeast study provides framework for understanding biodiversity, applications
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Better understanding of the family responsible for nearly all bread, fermented drinks, and biofuels creates a path to finding new strains with potentially useful traits.
New nontoxic powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
A low-cost, recyclable powder can kill thousands of waterborne bacteria per second when exposed to sunlight.
Fusion Simulations Reveal the Multi-Scale Nature of Tokamak Turbulence
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Creating efficient, self-sustaining fusion power requires good confinement of the heat in the plasma.
Directly Imaging Quantum States in Two-Dimensional Materials
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
When some semiconductors absorb light, excitons (or particle pairs made of an electron bound to an electron hole) can form.
STAR Physicists Track Sequential ‘Melting’ of Upsilons
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Scientists use the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a Department of Energy user facility, to recreate and study the hot particle soup that existed in the very early universe.
To Advance Microbiome Research, the National Microbiome Data Collaborative Ambassador Program Promotes Microbiome Data Standards
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Researchers have predicted that our planet may be home to one trillion species of microbes.
Getting to the Bottom of When the Smallest Meson Melts
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Theorists have performed calculations to predict the temperature at which bottomonium mesons will melt.
Researchers Demonstrate First Precision Gene Editing in Miscanthus
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Adaptable and easy to grow, miscanthus (or silvergrass) shows great potential as a sustainable bioenergy crop.
Getting to the Bottom of When the Smallest Meson Melts
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Theorists have performed calculations to predict the temperature at which bottomonium mesons will melt.
Scientists Develop Inorganic Resins for Generating and Purifying Radium and Actinium
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Targeted alpha therapy can destroy cancerous cells without harming healthy cells.
A Low-Energy ‘Off Switch’ for Quark-Gluon Plasma
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Physicists can create an exotic state of matter known as a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by colliding gold nuclei together.
HERACLES beamline to accelerate cathode research
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Cornell is breaking new ground in electron beam research with the HERACLES beamline, a state-of-the-art electron gun that mimics the harsh environments of the world’s largest particle colliders.
‘Noise-cancelling’ qubits developed at UChicago to minimize errors in quantum computers
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Despite their immense promise to solve new kinds of problems, today’s quantum computers are inherently prone to error.
ODU Doctoral Student, Ronglong Fang, Awarded Department of Energy Graduate Fellowship
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Old Dominion University Mathematics doctoral student, Ronglong Fang, will apply his mathematics research skills to help further our understanding of the building blocks of matter in the Department of Energy.
Making the structure of ‘fire ice’ with nanoparticles
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
The structure harnesses a strange physical phenomenon and could enable engineers to manipulate light in new ways
Richardson selected for DOE SCGSR program
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Glenn Richardson, graduate student in physics with Professor David Moore, and a member of Yale’s Wright Lab, has been awarded a Department of Energy (DOE)
Preserving Forests to Protect Deep Soil From Warming
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
A recent study led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of Zurich has revealed that the organic compounds proposed for carbon sequestration in deep soil are highly vulnerable to decomposition under global warming.
Summit study fathoms troubled waters of ocean turbulence
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Simulations performed on the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory revealed new insights into the role of turbulence in mixing fluids and could open new possibilities for projecting climate change and studying fluid dynamics.
Historic Advanced Photon Source magnet sees the light of day for the first time in 29 years
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
On September 8, 1994, a group of people affixed their signatures in white ink onto a long red magnet.
Photosynthesis, Key to Life on Earth, Starts with a Single Photon
By DOE Newswire Report | Jun 24, 2023
Using a complex cast of metal-studded pigments, proteins, enzymes, and co-enzymes, photosynthetic organisms can convert the energy in light into the chemical energy for life.