| U.S. Department of Energy’s Decades of Discovery |
| The following list of discoveries is grouped by general discipline—the numerical order is random and not ranked by importance. |
Biological and Environmental Research
73. Improving the Realism of Global Simulations
75. Verifying the “Third Branch of Life”
76. The World’s Toughest Microbe
77. The Smallest Genome that Sustains Independent Life
78. Speeding Up the Process of Gene Discovery
79. Engineered Enzyme Accelerates DNA Sequencing
80. Tiny Capillaries Have Giant Impact on DNA Sequencing
81. “Painting” Chromosomes for Quick and Easy Analysis
82. Putting a Virus to Practical Use
83. Unraveling the Role of DNA Repair
85. The Role of the Extracellular Matrix in Cancer
86. New Tools for Structural Biology Research
87. The Structure of Nature’s “Molecular Machines”
88. Studies of Protein Structure Help Fight Lyme Disease
89. Accelerating the Study of Proteins
90. Optical Probes for Imaging Single Molecules
91. MicroPET Enhances Studies of Small Animals
92. Mapping Human Brain Function
93. Improving Neutron Beams for Cancer Treatment
94. The Biochemistry of Human Addiction
95. Observing Chemical Changes in Living Cells
96. Modeling and Simulating Environmental Problems
97. Discovering the Processes of Acid Rain
98. Predicting Effects of Elevated Carbon Dioxide
99. Clues to the Location of the Missing Carbon Dioxide