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Registration Now Open for Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl

A competition like no other begins again for high school and middle school students from all across the country.

Brookhaven Lab Helped Coax the Higgs Out of Hiding

There's good reason for Long Islanders to celebrate the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded last week to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert for their prediction of the Higgs particle and the mechanism by which it gives mass to the building blocks of our universe.

The Other Route to Biofuels

Scientists identify key genes for increasing oil in plant leaves.

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Death of a Spruce Tree, Life of the Forest

Study of the Black Spruce forest by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland will improve our understanding of how climate change affects the health of forests.

Energy Department to Award $100 Million for Energy Frontier Research Centers

Funding will help fuel innovative solutions toward next generation energy systems.

Researchers Demonstrate 'Accelerator on a Chip'

Technology could spawn new generations of smaller, less expensive devices for science and medicine.

Be Amazed by the Work at DOE

Check out the National Library of EnergyBeta: A Gateway to Information about the "All-of-the-Above" Energy Strategy.

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Supercomputers Help Solve a 50-Year Homework Assignment

Calculation related to question of why the universe is made of matter.

Berkeley Lab Scientist Named MacArthur "Genius" Fellow

Physicist Carl Haber has turned techniques first developed for studying high-energy particles into technologies which will recover and restore some of the earliest recordings ever made.

Scientists Push Closer to Understanding Mystery of Deep Earthquakes

Argonne Lab’s Advanced Photon Source breaks new ground in an extremely high pressure study.

Scientists Expand Search for Light Dark Matter

Physicists on the CDMS experiment have devised a better way to search for a particle that, if it exists, would revolutionize our ideas about dark matter.

Glass or Plastic?

Researchers at Georgia Tech, supported in part by the Office of Science, show that at tiny scales, the makeup of a container affects how fast the H2O flows.