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01.26.17Science Highlight

Creating Bionic Enzymes

Scientists replace iron in muscle protein, combining the best aspects of chemical and biological catalysts for enhanced production of chemicals and fuels. Read More »

01.26.17Science Highlight

More Steps, Faster Results

New method lets supercomputers model key details of greenhouse gases and molecules relevant to automobile combustion. Read More »

01.26.17Science Highlight

Pure as the Driven X-Ray

Seeding x-ray free electron lasers with customized electron beams produces incredibly stable laser pulses that could enable new scientific discoveries.

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01.25.17From the Labs

PPPL Physicist Uncovers Clues to Mechanism Behind Magnetic ReconnectionExternal link

Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has published a paper showing that magnetic reconnection — the process in which magnetic field lines snap together and release energy — can be triggered by motion in nearby magnetic fields. Read More »

01.25.17Profile

Turning Research Data into Scientific DiscoveriesExternal link

Line Pouchard, an information specialist in computational science, brings her expertise in big data management and curation to Brookhaven Lab's Center for Data-Driven Discovery. Read More »

01.24.17User Facility

A Rising Peptide: Supercomputing Helps Scientists Come Closer to Tailoring Drug MoleculesExternal link

With the help of the Mira supercomputer, located at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory a team of researchers led by biophysicists at the University of Washington have come one step closer to designing tailor-made drug molecules that are more precise and carry fewer side effects than most existing therapeutic compounds. Read More »

01.24.17User Facility

The Contradictory CatalystExternal link

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found the key to speeding up the rate of reaction of a potential catalyst for energy storage lies in making the reactive parts of the catalyst move more slowly. Read More »

01.24.17User Facility

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

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. Read More »

01.23.17Science Highlight

Supercomputers for Quantum Computers

Researchers simulate the design of new quantum bits for easier engineering of quantum computers. Read More »

01.23.17Science Highlight

Bacteria’s Secret Weapon

Enzyme Shows Promise for Efficiently Converting Plant Biomass to Biofuels Read More »

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