Sometimes scientific terms can be confusing. @ENERGY's "DOE Explains..." offers straightforward explanations of everything from Atmospheric Radiation to Ultrafast Science energy.gov/science/doe-expla…
Sometimes a twist is all it takes to create a new field of research. Stacking 2D materials on top of each other and twisting them slightly results in unusual electronic properties.
Eva Andrei @RutgersU recently won @KavliPrize for this discovery: energy.gov/science/articles/…
ALT Illustration of two thin layers of graphene stacked on top of each other and then twisted. There is a light coming through the bottom of the stacks used to study the interactions.
An atlas is used to understand geography, but the ATLAS DOE Office of Science User Facility @argonne is used to understand the building blocks of the world—atomic nuclei.
For 40 years, this tool has provided incredible insights into nuclear structure: anl.gov/article/atlas-four-d…
ALT A photograph from the late 1970s showing Paul Markovich and Gene Clifft working at a computer attached to a large, messy cluster of electronics around a large tube.
We’re entering a new frontier in quantum computing.
Today, @ENERGY announced the $215M Quantum Genesis Q Competition to accelerate the development and deployment of the world's first fault-tolerant scientifically relevant quantum computers.
You may have heard of "chestnuts roasting on an open fire," but have you ever seen a chestnut tree?
A blight killed billions of them in the early 1900s, but researchers @ORNL & @jgi are using genomics and biochemical profiling to help restore them: ornl.gov/news/ornl-plant-mic…
ALT Photograph of a landscape of mountains covered in green trees, with an American chestnut tree in the foreground.
“This is something we haven't seen before in nature” - Rachael Kretsch @stanford. Using tools @SLACLab, she led a team that discovered beautiful complexes of RNA that didn’t have any proteins to support them. The work is giving new insights into RNA: slac.stanford.edu/news/2025-…
ALT Three diagrams of RNA molecules, which look like multicolored balls of tangled curled ribbon
Are you an expert at managing large facilities and supporting the execution of performance-based contracts? The Office of Science is looking for a Site Office Manager for the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Apply today: usajobs.gov/job/883855600
“I love experimental science. Going into a lab and not knowing what’s going to come out of it.” - Mary Danielson @ORNL & @UTKnoxville. Searching for new ways to break down plastic, she made a sticky chemical. Now it's being developed into an adhesive: energy.gov/science/articles/…
The @ENERGY Office of Science's facilities make our world-leading scientific research possible.
Join a virtual town hall on Sept. 17 to give input on the future of these facilities: web.cvent.com/event/581984eb…
ALT A map of the Dept. of Energy Office of Science National Laboratories
A happy accident + curiosity = discovery, at least for Eva Andrei's team @RutgersU in 2009.
They found that 2D materials stacked with a twist resulted in new properties, creating the field of "twistronics" and earning Andrei a @KavliPrize in nanoscience: energy.gov/science/articles/…
ALT Eva Andrei, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Allan H. MacDonald (all wearing dark suits) accepting the Kavli Prize for nanoscience on stage from a presenter shaking Jarillo-Herrero's hand. There is a screen that says "The Kavli Prize" with patterns of lights around it behind them.
ALT Text: Thank you to America's National Laboratories' Workers; image: A collage of 14 photos of scientific research being conducted at the Department of Energy National Laboratories
What is one of the best ways to prepare doctoral-level students for science and tech jobs through the Genesis Mission?
Attend our virtual town hall on Sept. 24 to share your input on an anticipated Genesis Mission Graduate Fellowship pilot: web.cvent.com/event/8313b07c…
The LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detection experiment, supported by @ENERGY's Office of Science, has recorded a single particle interaction that researchers are having difficulty explaining with known background signals from normal matter.
Dark matter has never been directly detected.
ALT Looking up into the LZ outer detector, which is used to veto radioactivity that can mimic a dark matter signal. It has a white cylinder, surrounded by a clear cylinder, surrounded by knob-like objects with yellow domes in a giant dome shape around the cylinders.
Dark matter makes up ~85% of the universe's mass. While this result does not yet meet the statistical threshold required to claim a discovery, it's the most compelling hint reported by the experiment to date. energy.gov/science/articles/…
Innovation requires researchers ready to tackle big challenges. Our Graduate Student Research program is accepting applications for U.S. grad students to conduct part of their research at an @ENERGY DOE National Lab or site. Apply now: energy.gov/science/articles/…
ALT Two women in lab coats, one of which is looking through a microscope; text: Graduate Student Research Program - Accepting Applications
A quantum system big enough to touch seems impossible, considering that quantum science studies subatomic items.
In 1985, a team @BerkeleyLab developed one, which is now the foundation for today's superconducting qubits: energy.gov/science/articles/…
ALT Francesco Crisa (a man in a full clean room outfit) holds a series of superconducting qubits in a small plastic box
Helping students build their future in STEM!
This fall, 151 students will participate in unique hands-on research and technical training at @ENERGY National Laboratories and a fusion facility. energy.gov/science/articles/…
ALT SULI / CCI - A man supervising a young woman in a lab, both with safety glasses on
How do you turn wasted plastic garbage into useful glue?
While investigating methods to develop better plastics, researchers at @ORNL discovered a process to make a versatile adhesive that even works underwater: energy.gov/science/articles/…
ALT Mary Danielson, who is wearing a lab coat, goggles, and gloves, is holding two pieces of glass attached together with the yellow adhesive. She is leaning on a reflective lab bench with samples of the adhesive in small glass bottles in front of her. Anisur Rahman (who is also in lab equipment) is standing next to her, watching.
Quantum information science can offer new windows into high energy physics and our universe as a whole.
@ENERGY announced $7.3 M for 8 projects that will develop new quantum sensors and applications for quantum computers in this field: content.govdelivery.com/acco…
The Genesis Mission is about applying AI to solve real scientific challenges and during my visit to @INL, I saw that mission in action—from nuclear fuels and materials research to high-performance computing and reactor demonstrations that accelerate discovery.