DOE Science Accelerator, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy

DOE Research Makes Big Bang

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:20:41 -0500

Saul Perlmutter has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for his breakthrough research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He cofounded the Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP) in 1988, with the breakthrough coming ten years later. The SCP pioneered the methods used to discover the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae. For many years Perlmutter has been a leader in studies to determine the nature of dark energy. To explore the universe using Science Accelerator, also check out the search results for big bang and supernovae.

Explore the sciences via Science Accelerator

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:20:41 -0500

Have you ever wanted to save all the items on a search results page but found checking each item a cumbersome process? With Science Accelerator, you now have a quick and easy option – to 'Select all displayed'. This selects all the results on the page that you are viewing. In addition, the search and retrieval capability for one of the Science Accelerator resources, DOE R&D Accomplishments, has been enhanced to provide an improved results list. Also, sharing your search results via e-mail now offers the capability to send a comment to the recipient. Explore these new capabilities via the basic search or the advanced search.

Explore the sciences via Science Accelerator

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:20:41 -0500

Explore the world of science via ScienceAccelerator – from renewable energy to breakthroughs in medical research, to the intricacies of the atom, to the makeup of molecules, to insights into the Big Bang theory, and much more.

Emphasis is placed on DOE scientific research and its results, complemented by scientific research and results of interest to DOE scientists and the science-attentive citizen. DOE is the single largest Federal government supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States.

Science Accelerator content now includes multimedia

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:20:41 -0500

Science Accelerator has expanded its suite of collections to include ScienceCinema, which contains videos produced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories and other research institutions. ScienceCinema utilizes state-of-the-art audio indexing and speech recognition technology that provides search results such that you can easily access the exact point in the video where the words were spoken by the presenter. ScienceCinema joins a suite of Science Accelerator resources that offer a variety of science research, including electronic full-text research reports, energy citations beginning with the Manhattan project, green energy research results, ongoing research project summaries, wonderful DOE accomplishments in science, collections of DOE non-text data, e-prints, proceedings and papers from science conferences, and more.

Optimize your findings; share them with friends

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:20:41 -0500

You can send your Science Accelerator search results to yourself and colleagues in three ways:

From the E-mail Your Results link on the results page
From the Create an Alert link on your topic(s) of interest
From the share feature which offers a variety of social media options

Science Accelerator finds information from 13 key DOE databases of scientific and technical information and is developed and hosted at OSTI.

Use Clusters to Refine Your Search

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:39:41 -0500

When you search for science information at ScienceAccelerator.gov, you get lots of help homing in on the research you need. Enter your search term, such as "fuel cell," and it will automatically generate a cluster field on the left column of your search results page. Topics appear such as "fuel cell vehicle," "solid oxide fuel," "fuel stack," and many more important related subjects. Date clusters also appear. For your convenience, the number of search results found on each topic or date will show up in parentheses. You just select the topic or date and your search continues to drill down to the information you need. ScienceAccelerator.gov finds information from 13 key DOE databases of scientific and technical information and is developed and hosted at OSTI.

More results, still relevant -- Science Accelerator increases the returns on your science search

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:39:41 -0500

Because of upgrades in technology, Science Accelerator now returns more results from each of the resources it searches, with the possibility of returning almost twice as many as before. While the pool of results is larger, those results are still ranked by relevancy to your search term(s). Plus, in returning these results, "exact phrase" search results are more precise because stemming of the terms in the "exact phrase" has been eliminated. Your search strategy, as well as other information, is now provided when the search results are printed, providing additional access to this information. For more results plus greater precision, try Science Accelerator, a gateway to science information from the Department of Energy, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more.

DOE Research Impacts

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:31:52 -0400

The results of Department of Energy (DOE) research is varied and far-ranging. For instance, did you know that researchers associated with DOE have decoded 3 of the chromosomes in your DNA, developed the battery that has powered many spacecraft (including the lunar lander), built a pre-Pong video game in 1958, and won more than 100 Nobel prizes? They have also discovered 8 of the transuranium elements that are on the Periodic Table and have advanced medicine by contributing to the development of CAT and PET scanners and by research related to MRIs.

DOE researchers discovered the path of carbon in photosynthesis, which led to solar energy research, and found a way to determine the age of plant-based artifacts utilizing the decay rate of carbon-14, which has been used to determine the age of mummies, prehistoric artifacts, and dwellings.

All this, and more, can be found at DOE R&D Accomplishments, a Science Accelerator resource.