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Rain clouds with visible area of downpour in the distance over a green field with shrubs in eastern New Mexico.

June 27, 2012

Desert dust intensifies summer rainfall in U.S. Southwest.

This model of the highly effective form of the bioremediation enzyme ChrR shows the intermolecular interactions and unique multi-atom hydrogen bonds (dotted lines) that may be the key to understanding the enzyme's efficacy in reducing the toxicity of...

June 22, 2012

A Potent Pollutant and a Pedestrian Protein

Brookhaven Lab illuminates potential solution for malevolent metal made famous by Erin Brockovich.

$This rendering shows a lysozyme structural model against its X-ray diffraction pattern from SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), a powerful X-ray laser facility.$

June 19, 2012

Bright Lights and a Few Good Eggs

Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator develop new technique to crack the structures of biomolecules.

June 6, 2012

Fermi Award Winners: Q&A

Mildred S. Dresselhaus and Burton Richter answer questions that will be of interest to future (and current) science lovers.

Structure of the human kappa opioid receptor in complex with JDTic

May 17, 2012

Bright Lights, Big Molecules and Hopefully a Better Understanding of Addictions

Researchers supported by Argonne Lab's Advanced Photon Source determine the structure of two opioid receptors.

NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing) Hopper supercomputer cluster at the OSF (Oakland Scientific Facility). Cray ECOphlex water-cooled supercomputers.

May 4, 2012

Turning a Negative into a Positive

IceCube Collaboration searches for new answers at the frozen ends of the Earth.

May 2, 2011

California Schools Sweep the 2011 National Science Bowl

The Mira Loma High School of Sacramento, California, and the Gale Ranch Middle School of San Ramon, California, beat out 1,800 sciences teams from across the country to become the 2011 National Science Bowl champions today.

December 23, 2010

Tracking Santa: An Interview with the Head Researcher

Every year since 1998, the Department of Energy's Los Alamos lab has been using state of the art technology to track Santa Claus as he circles the globe the night before Christmas. New Media Specialist Ginny Simmons sits down with Santa Tracker Head Re...