The Office of Communications and Public Affairs (OCPA) has several vehicles to update the public on the latest scientific outcomes of projects funded with support from the Office of Science. Each year, we post more than 2000 research news items as well as an equivalent number of Twitter messages. Our most recent items are featured on our home page. Here you will find searchable archives for Featured Articles, Science Headlines, Science Highlights, and University Research News. You may also search all these datasets simultaneously in our master news archive.
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A UT Austin-led team links supercomputer simulations and material fabrication to advance light-related devices.
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Rachel Mandelbaum’s work uses data from large sky surveys to study the physics governing the second half of the universe’s age.
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ASCR’s outgoing associate director reflects on a decades-long career that took her from a helpdesk to overseeing DOE’s supercomputing facilities.
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Volker Rose developed a one-of-a-kind microscope, combining synchrotron X-rays and scanning tunneling microscopy for insights at the atomic scale.
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Science Headlines
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A yearlong ARM field campaign launched in February 2023 to gather insights on the marine clouds that shade and cool the earth.
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Scientists confirmed that bacteriophages use a standard genetic code to invade bacteria, then switch to an alternate code at later stages of infection
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NSLS-II now offers free monthly public tours of one of the newest and most advanced synchrotron light sources in the world.
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The Autonomous Systems group at ORNL is in high demand as it incorporates remote sensing into projects needing a bird’s-eye perspective.
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Feng is a collaborator with the Q-NEXT quantum research center and develops high-tech materials to deliver photon packages of quantum information.
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Bishai will serve alongside University of Bologna physicist Sergio Bertolucci to lead the world's largest neutrino collaboration.
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CBI’s national lab, university and industry partners will take a multipronged, accelerated approach over the next five years to producing jet fuel.
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The new findings provide evidence for 'deconfinement' and insight into seething temperature of the hottest matter on Earth.
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The new Bioenergy Research Center awards will kick off JBEI’s fourth five-year funding phase.
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A new method can turn plastic jugs and packaging into fully recyclable and potentially biodegradable materials.
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Science Highlights
University Research News
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Researchers have shown that two previously separate fields in condensed matter physics can be combined to yield new, exotic phenomena.
March 24, 2023
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A study of a stalagmite found in a Wisconsin cave reveals evidence of a series of massive and abrupt warming events in the most recent ice age.
March 24, 2023
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New research shows growing switchgrass to make biofuels can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but only if grown on certain soils.
March 24, 2023
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New efforts are paving the way for automating lab work with robotics and AI in autonomous discovery.
March 23, 2023
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Speeding up a camera enables researchers to understand how materials move heat around and is a major step in advancing sustainable energy applications
March 23, 2023
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Scientists at St. Jude showed an effective method to avoid activating a major cellular detoxification receptor to overcome drug resistance & toxicity.
March 23, 2023
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Alabama A&M University researchers study agricultural influencers of climate change and carbon emissions.
March 22, 2023
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Tien-Tien Yu has been appointed a member of the P5, or Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel.
March 22, 2023
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MSU professor Bruno Basso shows how scientists must use a correction calculation to accurately quantify changes in soil carbon stocks over time.
March 22, 2023
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A team from Florida State U & Berkeley Lab developed a strategy to build solid-state batteries that are less dependent on specific chemical elements.
March 21, 2023
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