Category: DOE Science News

Noise estimation circuits, in conjunction with other error mitigation methods, produce reliable results for quantum computer-based materials simulations.

Adding a little oxygen to particle accelerator structures may make them more efficient and easier to build.

Laboratory measurements give new insights into the physics of auroral electron acceleration by Alfvén waves.

Monitoring photo-excited electrons in real time with nanometer sensitivity reveals strengths and weaknesses in a common light-harvesting material.

Office of Science Celebrates Quantum Information Science

Researchers enable real-time adjustments to communication among three remote nodes in a quantum network.

Fine roots grow dramatically faster in an experimentally warmed peatland

Research happening now within the Office of Science is critical to competing in the quantum-based technologies of the future.

A new model predicts small-scale differences in methane emissions from tropical soils on a hillside during drought and recovery.

Yongqin Jiao investigated how the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus survives in high levels of uranium and its potential use for bioremediation.

Scientists demonstrate the value of a new global atmosphere model for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model.

University researchers produce a novel method of shipping the promising medical isotope Astatine-211

An operating mode called wide pedestal quiescent H-mode allows tokamak operation without detrimental edge instabilities.

Xipeng Shen is accelerating supercomputing results and obtaining finer-grained, more accurate scientific simulations.

Six years of radar data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility site in Utqiaġvik, Alaska provide important details on how secondary ice particles form in Arctic clouds.

Scientists use gate set tomography to discover and validate a silicon qubit breakthrough.

Researchers develop a 2D tomography technique that will enable the search for Mach waves in the smallest droplets of quark-gluon plasma.

The search for “broken symmetry” may offer new insight into nuclear structure.

Arsenic doping dramatically improves the ability of black phosphorous to convert heat into electricity.

Two new technologies allow scientists to edit specific species and genes within complex laboratory bacterial communities.

New experiment finds evidence of a collective behavior of electrons to form particle-like quantum objects called “anyons.”

Ground-breaking image reconstruction and analysis algorithms filter out cosmic rays to pinpoint elusive neutrinos.

Jacqueline Chen has spent her career delving into the complex patterns and interactions of the flames that power our vehicles.

Jozef Dudek has pioneered theoretical techniques to study the subatomic particles – hadrons – which can decay into short-lived states.

A mobile Office of Science observatory is tracking clouds over Houston through summer 2022.

High school and middle school teams nationwide can now sign up to compete in one of the nation’s most prestigious and largest academic science competitions.

The pandemic changed how we operate our Office of Science user facilities. Now, we want to keep the best practices and innovations going forward.

Ken Andersen is the associate laboratory director of the Spallation Neutron Source and the High Flux Isotope Reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Anže Slosar looked back at the early universe, scaling up the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey data for answers about dark energy.

DOE’s Office of Science is working to reduce the need for critical materials, recycle them, and expand domestic sources of them.