Motion detectors

August 26, 2021

This research team wants to make literal earthshaking discoveries every day. “Earthquakes are a tremendous societal problem,” says David McCallen,… Read More

DNA repair 2.0

August 4, 2021

The DNA in every human cell gets damaged tens of thousands of times every day. A nucleotide – one of… Read More

Crafting community

July 21, 2021

Since the Department of Energy’s Office for Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) and Office of Science launched the Computational Science… Read More

Data alchemy

July 14, 2021

Checking our email, video-meeting on Zoom, using digital wallets to buy groceries, and analyzing vast amounts of scientific data all… Read More

Countering COVID

May 19, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic began taking hold in early 2020, Jeremy Smith of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the… Read More

Lights, CAMERA, insights

April 28, 2021

The Department of Energy (DOE) X-ray light source complex is a physical-science tool belt that stretches from Long Island to… Read More

On cancer’s trail

April 13, 2021

A Duke University team is learning to track roving killers: tumor cells that separate and circulate through the body before… Read More

Dishing up the early universe

April 1, 2021

When it comes to observing exploding stars, evolving galaxies and other celestial mysteries, combining the planet’s largest radio telescope with… Read More

Quantum trap

March 17, 2021

When Sandia National Laboratories’ Susan Clark was at Stanford University earning applied physics graduate degrees, she switched fields to pursue… Read More

Warp drive

March 3, 2021

When we think of the particle accelerators that elucidate the building blocks of nature, we think of spectacular and massive… Read More