Our Mission

DOE’s Office of Science has a mission to deliver scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform our understanding of nature and advance the energy, economic, and national security of the United States. We are the nation’s largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences and are a major supporter of research in such key scientific fields as physics, materials science, computing, and chemistry. We are also the lead federal agency supporting fundamental scientific research related to energy.

To keep America in the forefront of discovery and innovation, we sponsor research at hundreds of universities, national laboratories, and other institutions across the country. We also build and maintain a vitally important array of large-scale scientific facilities at the DOE national laboratories, which are used by thousands of researchers every year.

About the Office of Science

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science is the nation’s largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences, the steward of 10 DOE national laboratories, and the lead federal agency supporting fundamental research for energy production and security. Our job is to keep America at the forefront of discovery. This video is an overview of the Office of Science’s mission, people, and resources.
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Researchers at Oak Ridge and Berkeley Labs are evolving graph neural networks to scale on the nation’s most powerful computational resources.
NIU Engineering and Management Professors Receive DOE Grant for Student Program with Fermilab
The grant will help begin a program that brings students from underrepresented groups to Fermilab for research on magnets for particle accelerators.
Scientists Make COVID Receptor Protein in Mouse Cells
Initially motivated to make receptor-based sensors & therapies for COVID-19, scientists develop general strategy for producing other complex proteins.
U.K. Delegation Visits Fermilab to Collaborate on Quantum Network Research
Researchers are collaborating to encode information using quantum science to perform powerful calculations and distribute information across networks.

University and Stakeholder News

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UH Physicists Secure $1.5 Million to Study Particles That Could Solve Mysteries of the Universe
DOE's Office of Science awarded University of Houston professors Lisa Koerner and Daniel Cherdack $1.5 million to study neutrino oscillation.
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Bidding Adieu to Sticky Ice, But With a Grain of Salt
University of Illinois Chicago scientists studied the stickiness of ice containing everyday contaminants such as salt, soap and alcohol.
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Unlocking Oilseeds' Biofuel Potential
Nebraska biochemist Edgar Cahoon is leading an interdisciplinary team to explore an environmentally friendly, sustainable liquid fuel source.
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UMD Team Wins DOE Award to Advance AI Using Supercomputers
The award will enable UMD experts to scale distributed AI training and develop new AI vision and language models used in popular applications.
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Science Highlights

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Dept. of Energy Office of Science delivers scientific discoveries, tools for the nation via programs in Advanced Scientific Computing Research; Basic Energy Sciences; Biological & Environmental Research; Fusion Energy Sciences; High Energy Physics; Nuclear Physics. Also supports Accelerator Research; Isotope Research; Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer; 5 national quantum centers; 2 energy innovation hubs. Stewards 10 DOE national labs. 100-plus Nobel Prizes, $8.1 billion budget.

The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

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