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Unprecedented detail of intact neuronal receptor offers blueprint for drug developers

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists succeeded in obtaining an unprecedented view of a type of brain-cell receptor that is implicated in a range of neurological illnesses, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, depression, schizophrenia, autism, and ischemic injuries associated with stroke.

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

Composition of Earth's mantle revisited

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research published recently in Science suggested that the makeup of the Earth's lower mantle, which makes up the largest part of the Earth by volume, is significantly different than previously thought. This should shed light on unexplained seismic phenomena.

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

Do we live in a 2-D hologram?

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Business Announcement

A unique experiment at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory called the Holometer has started collecting data that will answer some mind-bending questions about our universe -- including whether we live in a hologram.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Dark Energy Survey kicks off second season cataloging the wonders of deep space

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Business Announcement

On Aug. 15, with its successful first season behind it, the Dark Energy Survey collaboration began its second year of mapping the southern sky in unprecedented detail. Using the Dark Energy Camera, a 570-megapixel imaging device built by the collaboration and mounted on the Victor M. Blanco Telescope in Chile, the survey's five-year mission is to unravel the fundamental mystery of dark energy and its impact on our universe.

Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Giant electromagnet completes its journey, moves into its new home at Fermilab

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

One year ago, the 50-foot-wide Muon g-2 electromagnet arrived at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois after traveling 3,200 miles over land and sea from Long Island, N.Y. This week, the magnet took the final few steps of that journey, moving across the Fermilab site and into the new building that now houses it.

Massive 30-ton MicroBooNE particle detector moved into place, will see neutrinos this year

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

On Monday, June 23, the next phase of neutrino physics at Fermilab fell (gently) into place. The MicroBooNE detector -- a 30-ton, 40-foot-long cylindrical metal tank designed to detect ghostly particles called neutrinos -- was carefully transported by truck across the US Department of Energy's Fermilab site, from the warehouse building it was constructed in to the experimental hall three miles away.

MINOS result narrows field for sterile neutrinos

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

A new result from the long-running MINOS experiment announced this week severely limits the area in which sterile neutrinos could be found and casts more doubt on whether they exist at all.

Solar panel manufacturing is greener in Europe than China, study says

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Solar panels made in China have a higher overall carbon footprint and are likely to use substantially more energy during manufacturing than those made in Europe, said a new study from Northwestern University and Argonne.

Journal: Solar Energy
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University

Argonne scientists discover new phase in iron-based superconductors

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a previously unknown phase in a class of superconductors called iron arsenides. This sheds light on a debate over the interactions between atoms and electrons that are responsible for their unusual superconductivity.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Scientists to map universe in 3-D HD

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

In a few years, scientists will come out with a new map of a third of the sky, one that will go deeper and bring that depth into sharper focus than any survey has yet achieved. It will pinpoint in three dimensions the locations of 25 million galaxies and quasars, pulling back the curtains on the history of the universe's expansion over more than half of the age of the universe.