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Recent News About U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
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Argonne’s self-driving lab accelerates the discovery process for materials with multiple applications
Today’s wearable technologies like smart glasses and watches are just the start.
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Yue Yuan, Weinberg Research Fellow, uses nature to create sustainable materials
Growing up in China, Yue Yuan stood beneath the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, built to harness the world’s third-longest river.
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Rouven Essig: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner
Extensive evidence suggests that a staggering 85% of the matter in our universe is dark matter. However, its identity remains unknown.
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International collaboration yields breakthrough that could revolutionize computing technologies
Researchers from Vanderbilt University and University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made a significant advancement in understanding the correlation of the vibrational patterns of atoms at the level of chemical bonds in conducting materials silicon and graphene.
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Researcher to image lab earthquake formation, precursory signals with ultrasound
Earthquakes are notoriously hard to predict, and scientists currently rely on seismic hazard maps to predict the likelihood of an earthquake to strike a particular region.
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To Track Turbulence in Tokamaks, Researchers Turn to Machine Learning
Understanding the turbulence in the boundary of magnetically confined plasma in a tokamak device is fundamental in fusion research.
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Zeroing in on a Fundamental Property of the Proton’s Internal Dynamics
Inside the proton are elementary particles called quarks.
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Predicting Changes in Microbial Food Webs
Increasing either temperature or nutrients can hurt ecosystems by destabilizing food webs, which are all of the interconnected food chains that make communities behave the way they do.
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Controlling Materials Properties Through Nanoscale Patterning
Scientists have developed a new way to control the electronic properties of materials.
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Understanding the Origin of Matter with the CUORE Experiment
There is so much that we do not yet know about neutrinos.
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Getting Purer Berkelium, Faster than Ever
Researchers need a better way to extract individual heavy metal elements, called actinides, to obtain a purer product. In 2018, researchers discovered that the actinide berkelium, when oxidized, does not form negatively charged ions in solutions of high nitric acid, as other actinides do.
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Deep Learning-Drives Insights into Protein-Protein Interactions
Protein sequencing allows scientists to identify the amino acids in a protein.
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Nucleons in Heavy Ion Collisions Are Half as Big as Previously Expected
To study atomic nuclei and subatomic particles, scientists use the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to collide heavy ions—atomic nuclei completely stripped of their surrounding electrons.
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First Science Results from FRIB Published
A multi-institutional team of nuclear science researchers has published the results of the first experiment at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB).
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Department of Energy to Support 999 Outstanding Undergraduate Students and 79 Faculty Members from Institutions Underrepresented in the Scientific Research Enterprise
The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science will sponsor the participation of 999 undergraduate students and 79 faculty members in three STEM-focused workforce development programs at 16 DOE national laboratories and a national fusion facility during summer 2023.
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DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program Selects 87 Outstanding U.S. Graduate Students
The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science has selected 87 graduate students representing 33 states for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program’s 2022 Solicitation 2 cycle.
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2023 Frib Visiting Scholar Program For Experimental Science Names Award Winners
Moshe Friedman from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, AJ Mitchell from the Australian National University in Australia, and Shuya Ota from Brookhaven National Laboratory are the award recipients for the 2023 Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science.
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Researchers team up with national lab for innovative look at copper reactions
Researchers at Binghamton University partnered with the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) — a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Brookhaven National Laboratory’s New Director JoAnne Hewett To Join Stony Brook Faculty
The United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory’s (BNL) newly appointed director, theoretical physicist JoAnne Hewett, will be joining Stony Brook University as a tenured faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics. Hewett is the first female director to lead BNL.
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IU researchers part of collaborative project to better understand the physics of our universe
The Majorana Demonstrator experiment took place in the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota.