Virtual wind farms

October 6, 2021

A transformative gale is blowing through the U.S. power industry. The Energy Information Administration puts wind power’s share of America’s… Read More

Tracking the big melt

September 22, 2021

Earth’s rapidly changing Arctic coastal regions have an outsized climatic effect that echoes around the globe. Tracking processes behind this… Read More

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