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Masks On, Ready to Work: Meet the People Supporting COVID-19 Science
Berkeley Lab workers provide essential services to scientists working on COVID-19-related research.
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Scientists Use Pressure to Make Liquid Magnetism Breakthrough
Using two flat-top diamonds and a lot of pressure, scientists have forced a magnetic crystal into a spin liquid state.
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Researchers at DIII-D Discover Mechanism to Improve Feasibility of Fusion Reactors
First observation of “E×B drift” effects on plasma edge suggest pathway to improved core-edge integration.
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In a Step Forward for Orbitronics, Scientists Break the Link Between a Quantum Material's Spin and Orbital States
The advance opens a path toward a new generation of logic and memory devices that could be 10,000 times faster than today's.
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Neil Lareau: Whirlwind Researcher of Cloud Updrafts
One scientist takes a journey from oil painting to cold-air pools, wildfires, and how pulses of surface air help make clouds.
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Making Quantum ‘Waves’ in Ultrathin Materials
Study co-led by Berkeley Lab reveals how wavelike plasmons could power up a new class of sensing and photochemical technologies at the nanoscale.
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Organic Spacers Improve LED Performance
A multi-lab team has significantly impacted LED performance by placing large organic molecules as spacers in a lattice of 2-D perovskites.
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Student receives DOE Graduate Student Research award at Fermilab
Hector Carranza Jr. of the University of Texas at Arlington has received the prestigious DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research award.
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Seeing the Universe Through New Lenses
Images collected for the dark energy telescope project reveal hundreds of new gravitational lens candidates.
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Gut Microbes May Help Improve Memory in Mice
A team of researchers used EMSL expertise and capabilities to find a new link between the gut microbiome and memory in mice.
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University and Stakeholder News

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UAH Boosts Search for COVID-19 Drugs Using HPE Cray Sentinel Supercomputer
UAH's Dr. Jerome Baudry is using HPE’s Cray Sentinel supercomputer to search for natural products that are effective against the COVID-19 virus.
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Why DUNE? Searching for the Origin of Matter
Part I in a series exploring the science goals of the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
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WSU Doctoral Student Heading to PNNL Thanks to Prestigious Department of Energy Award
Sarah Murphy is one of 62 outstanding students from across the United States selected for DOE's Office of Science Graduate Student Research award.
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DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program Selects CFANS Student
Graduate student Nathaniel Looker of the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resources Sciences has been selected.
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Slivers of Land Could Power Cheaper, Greener Nitrogen Fertilizers
Researchers estimate that farmers could use 1-5% of their fields to grow bioenergy crops to create the fuel needed to produce nitrogen fertilizers.
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DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program Selects Jordan as Outstanding Student
LSU Chemical Engineering PhD student Matthew Jordan is one of 62 graduate students from across the nation selected by DOE's Office of Science.
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Bliss Named to Department of Energy Program
PhD candidate Matthew Bliss received a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research award to further his doctoral studies.
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Texas A&M Chemistry’s Hannah Drake Selected for Department of Energy Graduate Student Research Award
Drake is one of 10 U.S. graduate students who will be conducting collaborative research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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‘Molecular Distancing’ Presents Pathway to Remote Chemical Reactions
UC San Diego chemists use "fast-talking" photons to enable molecules to exchange vibrational energy.
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Researchers Map Tiny Twists in "Magic-Angle" Graphene
Results could help designers engineer high-temperature superconductors and quantum computing devices.
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Funding News

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Department of Energy Announces $30 Million for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence ResearchLearn More
Department of Energy to Provide $7 Million for Accelerator R&D for Nuclear PhysicsLearn More
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