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Using a unique measurement tool, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have expanded our knowledge of the elements in soil and plants.

The U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) joined students from nearly 200 countries as a sponsor of the FIRST Global Challenge, an Olympic-style international robotics event in Athens, Greece.

For Halloween, we're highlighting seasonally appropriate research, from dark matter to quantum entanglement.

How much do you know about Bioenergy? Did you know that bioenergy is used to create biofuels, known as sustainable aviation fuels, that are currently used in our commercial airlines?

One of the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management’s highest priority cleanup projects continues to advance efforts to develop and make available a promising form of next generation cancer treatment.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) funded Agile BioFoundry (ABF) and the Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU), have successfully scaled up a bio-based process that converts ethanol into a valuable precursor for consumer products, such as paints, coatings, and diapers. The researchers worked with industry partner, Industrial Microbes, to develop the technology.

Researchers are analyzing every atom, chemical bond, and electrical charge inside a key enzyme that belongs to a metabolic pathway that cancer cells overuse to reproduce.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) scientists engineered a process for making β-ketoadipic acid from lignin for $2 per kilogram, approaching cost-competitiveness with petroleum-based chemicals used for making nylon today. With support from the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office, researchers are a step closer to addressing one possible answer to the persistent question of lignin.

Savannah River National Laboratory made its debut participation in the OTT Energy I-Corps program with the “Controlled Equilibrium Catalytic Isotope Exchange” team, or CECIE.