Science & Innovation

The Office of Science (SC) is an established leader of the U.S. scientific discovery and innovation enterprise. Over the decades, SC investments and accomplishments in basic research and enabling research capabilities to have provided the foundations for new technologies, businesses, and industries, making significant contributions to our nation’s economy, national security, and quality of life.
  • Artificial Intelligence for Science
    Artificial Intelligence
    AI brings enormous potential for the nation’s economic prosperity and national security.
    April 6, 2026
  • Artist’s depiction of the deuteron, the nuclear bound state of a proton and a neutron, on a backdrop of a computer circuit.
    Quantum Science
    Quantum information science has the potential to radically advance computing, sensing, and communications.
    October 16, 2025
  • This image depicts a binding molecule delivering radium-223 to a cancer cell.
    Cancer Research
    Cancer researchers use unique, world-leading scientific resources at DOE’s national laboratories.
    October 16, 2025