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sPHENIX Gets CD0 for Upgrade to Experiment Tracking the Building Blocks of Matter

01.24.17 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has granted “Critical Decision-Zero” (CD-0) status to the sPHENIX project, a transformation of one of the particle detectors at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory—into a research tool with unprecedented precision for tracking subatomic interactions.
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Seeking Structure With Metagenome Sequences

01.23.17 A team led by University of Washington’s David Baker worked with researchers at the Joint Genome Institute to generate structural models for 12 percent of the approximately 15,000 protein families, using computational modeling methods to view structures and determine protein functions.
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Kai Xiao: Growing Novel, Nanoscale Materials to Support Future Energy Needs

01.23.17 Kai Xiao's work as a staff scientist at ORNL’s Center for Nanophase Materials Science gives him access to some of the world’s most powerful tools to investigate materials as small as one-billionth of a meter, or at the nanoscale.
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Light Can Switch On Topological Materials

Computer simulations show how light pulses can create channels that conduct electricity with no resistance in atomically thin semiconductors. Read More
Researchers Use World's Smallest Diamonds to Make Wires Three Atoms Wide

Scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a way to use diamondoids – the smallest possible bits of diamond – to assemble atoms into the thinnest possible electrical wires, just three atoms wide. Read More
Laser Pulses Help Scientists Tease Apart Complex Electron Interactions

Time-resolved "stop-action" measurements identify an unusual form of energy loss. Read More

New Research on Shallow Warm Clouds will Advance Climate Models and Weather Forecasts
David Mechem, an associate professor in the Department of Geography & Atmospheric Science at the University of Kansas, is leading a new $525,000, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to better understand the fundamental processes governing the behavior of shallow clouds, the low-hanging cottony clouds often seen on a summer day or over ocean waters.
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A Quark Like No Other
University of Iowa physicist Usha Mallik is at the forefront of the search for a missing particle that could prove whether the Higgs boson—believed to give mass to all matter—exists.
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Recreating Conditions Inside Stars With Compact Lasers
A multi-institution experiment conducted at Colorado State University used smaller, compact lasers to create ultra-short laser pulses and validate numerical models measuring the irradiation intensities and the extreme pressures generated.
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