13-May-2024 The true cost: Deploying electric vehicle charging infrastructure nationwide DOE/Idaho National Laboratory When President Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2021, he announced a goal to install 500,000 new electric vehicle chargers across the nation by 2030. The Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office has tasked the experts at Idaho National Laboratory to answer big questions surrounding this goal.
8-May-2024 Giving local business a ‘boost’ with national lab technology DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab has teamed up with New Mexico’s Sandia National Laboratories to bring the BoostPlatform to Hampton Roads, kicking off the partnership with a well-attended workshop in Newport News. The DOE initiative, led by Sandia Labs, brings national labs, startups, academia and entrepreneurs together to find solutions to big, community-based energy and technology challenges. Funder DOE/US Department of Energy
7-May-2024 Radar is advancing at historic speed. How engineers are setting the pace DOE/Sandia National Laboratories In a whirling geopolitical landscape of new nuclear weapons, hypersonic weapons, drones and satellites, the U.S. is hustling to test new kinds of radars aimed at detecting evolving threats. Many of these tests take place in a simulated research environment created at Sandia National Laboratories.
7-May-2024 ORNL, SLAC team up for breakthrough biology projects DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Under DOE’s Integrated Research Infrastructure initiative, a team from ORNL and SLAC is establishing a data portal that will enable Frontier to process the results from experiments conducted by LCLS-II. Scientists and users at LCLS will leverage ORNL’s computing power to study their data, conduct simulations and more quickly inform their ongoing experiments, all within a seamless framework. Journal Current Opinion in Structural Biology
7-May-2024 X-ray study offers first look at a quantum version of the liquid-crystal phase DOE/Argonne National Laboratory A team of scientists, with help from Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source, have demonstrated the existence of an elusive state of matter known as quantum spin nematic. Journal Nature
6-May-2024 Quietly making noise: Measuring differential privacy could balance meaningful analytics and healthcare data security DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL researchers Vandy Tombs and Robert Bridges have developed a new method that improves on the standard method of differential privacy to allow healthcare data sharing while maintaining high levels of privacy.
6-May-2024 Fusion record set for tungsten tokamak WEST DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory researchers measured a new record for a fusion device internally clad in tungsten. The device sustained a fusion reaction for a record six minutes and four seconds with 1.15 gigajoules of power injected, 15% more energy and twice the density than before. PPPL researchers used their own novel approach to measure several aspects of the reaction using a specially adapted device for detecting X-rays called the multi-energy soft X-ray camera (ME-SXR). Funder DOE/US Department of Energy
6-May-2024 Argonne hosts 2024 Science Careers in Search of Women event DOE/Argonne National Laboratory The annual Science Careers in Search of Women event is dedicated to increasing diversity in science, engineering, technology and mathematics (STEM).
2-May-2024 A deep dive into plutonium chemistry DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Argonne researchers seek to expedite the cleanup of the Hanford site by influencing the chemical properties of plutonium particles in 54 million gallons of waste.
2-May-2024 New process tackles pollution on two fronts: plastic waste and fuel emissions DOE/Ames National Laboratory A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory recently developed a chemical conversion process that makes diesel out of plastic waste.
