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U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Jeff Avery recently viewed the legacy cleanup mission underway at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (EM) has selected Jessica Kunkle as the next EM Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) manager, effective June 16.

An Idaho National Laboratory report takes the first comprehensive look at cyberattack risks that could jeopardize U.S. wind energy systems and real-world events that have affected wind energy systems and organizations around the world.

Meet Shahnaz Punjani. Star Wars helped spark her interest in becoming an astronaut. As the division director for #NNSA’s Ballistic Missile Weapons Division, she doesn’t orbit the earth, but she has made a life and career that are out of this world.

While studying mechanical engineering at the University of Texas in Austin, Paquette became interested in structural components and composite materials. Although he originally planned to pursue work in the aerospace industry, he jumped at the opportunity to work at Sandia on wind turbine blades—the largest composite structures in the world.

Researchers sometimes genetically engineer microorganisms—such as fungi—to convert renewable feedstock materials into useful biofuel or biochemical products. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which allows researchers to quickly amplify DNA sequences for analysis, is one of the most essential tools in this process. When working to synthesize biofuels using fungi, PCR is particularly important for evaluating various strains of mutated fungi.

Using the NSLS-II, researchers explored what makes high-temperature superconducting materials different from conventional ones.