Index of IssuesEnergy Science News
Energy Science News is published bimonthly only as an electronic journal on the Internet. Read how Energy Science News became an online newsletter in a presentation developed for the Society for Technical Communication.
Energy Science News has won the 1998 APEX Grand Award and 1999 APEX Award of Excellence for quality online science newsletters, and the Scientium 2001 Award for Science Excellence and quality of content.
Current Issue:
Winter 2002 Interview with Rob Goldston, Director of Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; 3-D Holographic Scanner for Better Airport Security; A New Way to Visualize Cells and Nuclei; Astrophysicists Explore Supernovae with an Eye on National Security; Long-Life Rechargeable Batteries; Centennial Celebrations for Fermi and Lawrence; Magnetic Refrigerator; A New Way to Make "Neuts" Free Math Software for Kids; New Material Expands Under Pressure; and much more...
Back Issues:
Fall 2001SciDAC Awards: Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing; New Lens Could Help Find Cancer Tumor Earlier; Earliest Hominid Discovery Not the Missing LinkBut Close; Are the Digits of Pi Random?; Brookhaven Physicists Produce "Doubly Strange Nuclei; R&D 100 Awards Announced!; Office of Science Wins APEX Award of Excellence; and much more...
Summer 2001Office of Science Labs Win White House Pollution Prevention Awards; Untangling the Structure of Lyme Disease; A Lucky CatchOldest, Most Distant Supernova Ever Seen; Artificial Pancreas; 2001 Discover Magazine Innovation Awards; Information Overload Distracts Drivers; Strengthening the Public Information Infrastructure for Science; New Method for Cancer Risk Assessment; Building a Better Baby Diaper; and more...
Spring 2001Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues of the Human GenomeDan Drell talks about sticky legal and social issues of human genome research and what DOE's ELSI Program is doing bout it; Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics Publish First Analyses of Working Draft Sequences; Magnetic Moment Challenges the Standard Model of Particle Physics; ScintimammographyNew Breast Cancer Imaging Technology; and much more...
Winter 2000An Unusual Mix: Bill Millman talks about managing a division that combines three diverse scientific disciplines; FuguThe Poisonous Pufferfish: New Genome Model for Gene Hunters; An Uncommon Sensor: A new spectroelectrochemical sensor for monitoring hazardous waste; Microbial Marathon: During the month of October, high-quality draft sequences of 15 bacterial genomes were produced at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Joint Genome Institute; and more...
August/September 2000
Meet Millie Dresselhaus, the New Office of Science Director; Wow! Fermilab Confirms the Tau!; Superweld: Unlocking the Potential of High-Temperature Superconductors; Diamonds are a MEMS Best FriendArgonne's "ultra-nanocystalline diamond films" could provide the materials breakthrough needed to push the fledgling field of micro-machines called "MEMS" into the commercial mainstream; and more...
March/April 2000
Spring Time is Budget Time for the Office of Science; New Rad-Resistant Material for Safer Plutonium Storage; Crazy physics" make new semiconductor alloy a possible photovoltaic power source for satellites; World's Largest Fast-Growth Crystal; 1999 National Medal of Science Winner; and more...
January/February 2000
Advanced Scientific Computingthe Mover and Shaker of Scientific Research; Supercomputers Help Solve a 50-Year-Old Quantum Physics Problem; Discovery of New Genes May Help Asthma Sufferers Breathe Easier; Friendlier Gases Through Ethylene Research; New PrePRINT Network website; and more...
November/December 1999
.Martha KrebsThen and Now, one of the last interviews Martha will give as she leaves the Department of Energy in December; TelePresence to the Rescuehow a technology from Argonne National Laboratory may have helped save the life of a doctor at the South Pole; and more...
September/October 1999
Talking with Peter Rosen about the Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics; Hot Algae, Pale Coral; Freezing Proton Motion; the 1999 R&D 100 Awards; World's Smallest RefineryThe Microplasmatron Fuel Convertor; New Superheavy Elements Discovered; More Trees, Please; and more...
May/June 1999
Plants with BackboneA Promising Mystery; Laboratory Plasmas Shed Light on the Sun; Eureka! California Discovers Plutonium...Again!; Nauru99 Triangle; and more...
March/April 1999
The Fusion Program Has Changed DirectionsInterview with Anne Davies; Sandia Sells SeashellsNew Tougher Transparent Coatings; Quasars: Really Far Out Science; Assymetric Dancing Partners; and more...
January/February 1999
FY 2000 Budget Request for the Office of Science; Extremophilesthe Ultramarathoners of the Microbe World; Plant Information Superhighway; Special Remembrance: Glenn Seaborg; 1998 Fermi Award Winners, and more...
November/December 1998
Pioneering a New Branch of Science; Humble Weed Becomes Model for Genome Analysis; Microscopic Shock Waves; 1998 SuperComputing Awards; and more...
September/October 1998
Changing Our Name But Doin' the Same; Mitochondrial Maps: The Structure of Power; The Last Meson: Some Things You've Never Seen Before; The Sloan Digital Sky Survey; and more...
July/August 1998
World's Toughest Bacteria; The Tera Machine; 1998 R&D 100 Awards; Talking with Ari Patrinos, and more...
May/June 1998
Science Themes for 2020; A Proton Shaped Like Elvis?; Genome Research Tracks Down Bad Genes; Semiconducters - New Life Without Oxygen; and more...
March/April 1998 Search for Dark Matter; Magnetic Reconnection, Solar Flares, and You; Riddle Scheme Reveals Gene Mysteries; Intellect and Instrumentation on the Internet; and more....
January/February 1998 Ice Station SHEBA; Big Bang, Big Science; Miniature, Life-Saving Sensors; ER's Budget - Good News for Science; and more....
November/December 1997 The Stardust Enigma; Isotopes and Arteries; Light-Minded Scientists Unlock Secrets of Hypericin; and more....
September/October 1997 Tacking the Carbon Problem; Cell Suicide; Trouble in the Troposphere; and more....
July/August
1997 Energetic Science through Integrated Programs; Light Magic and the Fuel of Life; Mercury Aloft; Better Cement through CO2, and more....
May/June 1997
Lessons from Brookhaven; Light Ways to Debug Food; Electrifying Secrets of Seismic
Unrest; Crafting Catalysts for Cleaner Cars, and more....
March/April 1997
ER's Budget, Microbe Adventures, New Image of Lyme Disease, One Molecule At A Time,
Environmentally Cool Magnetic Refrigerator, and more....
January/February
1997 Fresh Perspectives Help ER Chart Course to New Era; The Romance of
Freezing; The Attraction of Rare-Earth Magnets, The Art of Partnering, and more.... November/December
1996 Taking Gamma Ray Fingerprints for a Safer, Cleaner World; Rare Migraine Gene
Discovered; International Telecommuting; Bugs Give Glowing Boost to Bioremediation, and
more.... September/October
1996 Moving Right Along Toward Using Performance Measures; EMSL Dedication;
SurfaceExcitement; New Phenomenon Discovered in Colliding Spheres, and more.... July/August1996 Multi-Country
Talks Herald Planning for Next Phase of Fusion Project; Ames Invents Low-Temperature "Glue"
for Ceramic Composites; Brain Tumor Treatment Begins Round Two of Clinical Trials;
Molecular Structure Around Strontium and Rubidium Is Determined, and more.... May/June 1996 Do You Think
of DOE as a Science Agency?; Neurochemical Systems Used To Study Brain and Behavior;
Collaboration Provides Rapid Prototyping of Complex Ceramic Parts; Advanced Photon Source
Dedicated at Argonne, and more.... March/April 1996 The '97 Budget Request Goes to the Hill; Science in the Witness Box; Dancing the LightFantastic; Scrutinizing a Killer; Biomagnetometer Maps Brain, and more.... January/February1996Tree Kill Linked with Volcanic Activity; Buried Solutions; Honoring a SingularVision; The Best of the Best: Nobel and Fermi Winners; Budgets; Collaboration and "Knowledge in the Making", and more.... >
October
1995 Understanding Coal; Tracing Human Origins with "Alu" Markers; Possible Culprit
in Radiotherapy Complications; Photon Enlightenment; Healthy Collaborations between
Government and Industry, and more.... August
1995 Microbes with a Taste for Waste; Hitting the Target: Boron Neutron Capture
Therapy; Oil and Gas as "Renewable Resources"?; 'Surf's up' for New Accelerator Design;
Science and the Future of the Department of Energy, and more....
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