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Recent News About U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
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Researchers Demonstrate Secure Information Transfer Using Spatial Correlations in Quantum Entangled Beams of Light
Researchers at the University of Oklahoma led a study recently published in Science Advances that proves the principle of using spatial correlations in quantum entangled beams of light to encode information and enable its secure transmission.
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Laboratory for Laser Energetics joins team to develop commercial fusion energy
The US Department of Energy program partners private companies with national laboratories and universities to design the first commercial fusion power plant.
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UVA-Led Discovery Challenges 30-Year-Old Dogma in Associative Polymers Research
A University of Virginia-led study about a class of materials called associative polymers appears to challenge a long-held understanding of how the materials, which have unique self-healing and flow properties, function at the molecular level.
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Layers of self-healing electronic skin realign autonomously when cut
Human skin is amazing. It senses temperature, pressure, and texture.
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Rice U. grad student wins DOE research award
The goal of the program is to prepare graduate students for science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) careers critically important to the DOE Office of Science mission by providing graduate thesis research opportunities through extended residency at DOE national laboratories.
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Axions whisper, but can you hear them? FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers think so
To hear an axion, you have to be listening very, very carefully.
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Treatment creates steel alloys with superior strength and plasticity
A new treatment tested on a high-quality steel alloy produces extraordinary strength and plasticity, two traits that must typically be balanced rather than combined.
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Graduate Student Selected for DOE Research Program at Sandia National Lab
The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science has selected physics graduate student Adam Christensen from The University of Texas at Austin to participate in the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program.
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Scientists report world’s first X-ray of a single atom in Nature
Ateam of scientists from Ohio University, Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and others, led by Ohio University Professor of Physics, and Argonne National Laboratory scientist, Saw Wai Hla, have taken the world’s first X-ray SIGNAL (or SIGNATURE) of just one atom.
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A Nanocrystal Shines On and Off Indefinitely
In 2021, lanthanide-doped nanoparticles made waves—or rather, an avalanche—when Changwan Lee, then a PhD student in Jim Schuck’s lab at Columbia Engineering, set off an extreme light-producing chain reaction from ultrasmall crystals developed at the Molecular Foundry at Berkeley Lab.
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Clemson University team leads sustainable energy research
A group of Clemson University researchers led a study that was recently published in the journal Nature Communications and is aimed at developing advanced materials for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and building a clean and sustainable energy future.
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Landmark yeast study provides framework for understanding biodiversity, applications
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.
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New nontoxic powder uses sunlight to quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water
A low-cost, recyclable powder can kill thousands of waterborne bacteria per second when exposed to sunlight.
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Fusion Simulations Reveal the Multi-Scale Nature of Tokamak Turbulence
Creating efficient, self-sustaining fusion power requires good confinement of the heat in the plasma.
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Directly Imaging Quantum States in Two-Dimensional Materials
When some semiconductors absorb light, excitons (or particle pairs made of an electron bound to an electron hole) can form.
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STAR Physicists Track Sequential ‘Melting’ of Upsilons
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.
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To Advance Microbiome Research, the National Microbiome Data Collaborative Ambassador Program Promotes Microbiome Data Standards
Researchers have predicted that our planet may be home to one trillion species of microbes.
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Getting to the Bottom of When the Smallest Meson Melts
Theorists have performed calculations to predict the temperature at which bottomonium mesons will melt.
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Researchers Demonstrate First Precision Gene Editing in Miscanthus
Adaptable and easy to grow, miscanthus (or silvergrass) shows great potential as a sustainable bioenergy crop.
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Getting to the Bottom of When the Smallest Meson Melts
Theorists have performed calculations to predict the temperature at which bottomonium mesons will melt.