Studying microorganisms from extreme environments is leading to new, multi-disciplinary approaches towards understanding microbial symbiosis.
Over the course of two decades, Chris Polly has been investigating the difference between measurement and theory in muons, a fundamental particle.
Exascale and quantum computers both offer the potential to transform scientific research. But they’re also complementary technologies.
The NVBL is bringing the national laboratories together to tackle the pandemic.
Plant roots are just as essential to ecological systems as the parts above ground. Colleen Iversen works to understand these dynamics.
Athena Safa Sefat focuses on superconductors to understand the design of quantum materials, to predict the next generation of materials.
Her Early Career Award allowed Evgenya Simakov to focus on understanding how to reduce undesirable states that can disrupt accelerator beams.
Magnetite is common, non-toxic, and could be very useful for batteries. Esther Takeuchi and her team are making that potential a reality.
Jean Paul Allain is integrating nanotechnology and materials science to help identify new designs for materials for use in fusion devices.
Jonathan Schilling is studying the enzymatic mechanisms used by Postia placenta, a brown rot fungus to degrade woody biomass.