SCIENCE ON FREE TUITION

WHY DO SCIENTISTS USE THE ADVANCED LIGHT SOURCE –A TOOL THE SIZE OF A FOOTBALL FIELD– TO LEARN ABOUT STRUCTURES AS TINY AS ATOMS AND MOLECULES ? What’s going on inside this building?

The ALS is a research facility used by scientists to:

Explore the properties of materials Analyze samples for trace elements Probe the [...]

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.

Basic Energy Sciences

1. Adenosine Triphosphate: The Energy Currency of Life

2. Making Better Catalysts

3. Understanding Chemical Reactions

4. New Types of Superconductors

5. Development of [...]