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Argonne advances engine simulation for greater efficiency

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are partnering with Convergent Science, Inc. (CSI), to speed up a key piece of modeling and simulation software to ensure those cycles are used as effectively as possible, reducing product development time and resulting in better engines and savings for consumers. The scale of the speed gains were recently demonstrated when researchers ran the largest engine simulation to date on more than 4,000 computer cores.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Land management practices to become important as biofuels use grows

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The handling of agricultural crop residues appears to have a large impact on soil's ability to retain carbon, making land management practices increasingly important, especially under a scenario where cellulosic materials become more heavily used as a feedstock for ethanol production, according to a recently published study led by researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.

Journal: Biogeosciences
Funder: DOE/Office of Science User Facility, Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

Two Large Hadron Collider experiments first to observe rare subatomic process

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, have combined their results and observed a previously unseen subatomic process.

Journal: Nature
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

Beetlejuice! Secrets of beetle sprays unlocked at the Advanced Photon Source

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers using the Advanced Photon Source, a US Department of Energy user facility at Argonne National Laboratory, have gotten the first-ever look inside the living beetle as it sprays. The results are published today in Science.

Journal: Science
Funder: US Army Research Laboratory, US Department of Energy's Office of Science, US Army Research Office/MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense

ICARUS neutrino experiment to move to Fermilab

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

A group of scientists led by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia will transport the world's largest liquid-argon neutrino detector across the Atlantic Ocean to its new home at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

X-ray ptychography, fluorescence microscopy combo sheds new light on trace elements

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have developed a new approach that combines ptychographic X-ray imaging and fluorescence microscopy to study the important role trace elements play in biological functions on hydrated cells.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health

Dark Energy Survey creates detailed guide to spotting dark matter

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists on the Dark Energy Survey have released the first in a series of dark matter maps of the cosmos. These maps, created with one of the world's most powerful digital cameras, are the largest contiguous maps created at this level of detail and will improve our understanding of dark matter's role in the formation of galaxies.

Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science
Meeting: American Physical Society April Meeting

Improved understanding of protein complex offers insight into DNA replication initiation mechanism basics

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A clearer understanding of the origin recognition complex -- a protein complex that directs DNA replication -- through its crystal structure offers new insight into fundamental mechanisms of DNA replication initiation. This will also provide insight into how ORC may be compromised in a subset of patients with Meier-Gorlin syndrome, a form of dwarfism in humans.

Journal: Nature
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health

Unraveling the origin of the pseudogap in a charge density wave compound

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By combining a variety of different experimental techniques and theory, a group led by researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory obtained unique insights into the nature of the pseudogap state in a canonical charge density wave material.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science - Office of Basic Energy Sciences

Scientists find rare dwarf satellite galaxy candidates in Dark Energy Survey data

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists on two continents have independently discovered a set of celestial objects that seem to belong to the rare category of dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

Journal: The Astrophysical Journal
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy