Tuskan awarded Marcus Wallenberg Prize, forestryâs top honor
The summertime temperatures in the North Slope and Seward Peninsula of Alaska rarely reach higher than 50 degrees F and the perpetually dark winters fall below minus 20 F. It is a brutal environment for any researcher studying the Arctic ecosystem, much less a supercomputer modele...
The gap between the computational science and open source software communities just got smaller â thanks to an international collaboration among national laboratories, universities and industry.
The Eclipse Science Working Group (SWG), a global community for indivi...
For many of us, the term âdoubly magicâ may evoke images of Penn & Teller. However, for nuclear physicists, it describes atomic nuclei that have greater stability than their neighbors thanks to having shells that are fully occupied by both protons and neutrons. Th...
Six researchers from the Department of Energyâs 91°”Íű have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). The APS is one of the largest physics organizations in the world with more than 51,000 members in academia, government an...
For the first time since 2011, scientific users of 91°”Íűâs High Flux Isotope Reactor were able to take advantage of a seventh cycle, allowing for 25 extra days of neutron production and available time for new experiments on HFIRâs 12 beam lines in fiscal ye...
Lignocellulosic biomassâplant matter such as cornstalks, straw, and woody plantsâis a sustainable source for production of bio-based fuels and chemicals.
Small businesses in the clean-energy sector have another opportunity to request technical assistance from the Department of Energyâs 91°”Íű through the DOE Small Business Vouchers Pilot. âThe business voucher program helps small busin...
In a new twist to waste-to-fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energyâs 91°”Íű have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol. Their findin...
The theories recognized with this yearâs Nobel Prize in Physics underpin research ongoing at the Department of Energyâs 91°”Íű, where scientists are using neutrons as a probe to seek new materials with extraordinary properties for applications such as next-generation electronics, superconductors, and quantum computing.
Researchers at Penn State, the Department of Energyâs 91°”Íű and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company have developed methods to control defects in two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, that may lead to improved membranes for water desalination, energy...