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A nearby supernova could end the search for dark matter

University of California - Berkeley
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Axions are the most likely candidate for enigmatic dark matter that dominates the universe. Astrophysicists are searching for evidence of high-mass axions produced during supernovae. UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab scientists propose that a quick way to find these axions is to look for a gamma ray burst coincident with a neutrino burst from a nearby core collapse supernova. But we need a fleet of gamma ray telescopes to insure we capture these rare events.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics and Sydor Technologies awarded $1.15 million DOE Phase II SBIR grant for fusion research

University of Rochester
Grant and Award Announcement

The University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) is collaborating with a technology transfer partner Sydor Technologies, which has been awarded a $1.15 million Phase-II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) for their project “Plasma-Electrode Pockels Cells for Inertial Fusion Facilities.”

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

How protective antibodies get in malaria’s way

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In work published today in Nature, researchers’ structural insights help reveal weak spot in malaria’s plan of attack which could help guide vaccine design. Contributors hailed from Fred Hutch, the Scripps Research Institute, the University of Copenhagen and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, as well as the Tanga Research Centre, the Infectious Disease Research Collaboration in Uganda, and the University of California, San Francisco.

Journal: Nature
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, DOE/US Department of Energy, Lundbeck Foundation, Independent Research Fund Denmark, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, European Molecular Biology Laboratory

New DESI data shed light on gravity’s pull in the universe

University of Texas at Dallas
Reports and Proceedings

University of Texas at Dallas physicist Dr. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki and his international colleagues in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration have found in a new analysis that the way in which galaxies cluster is consistent with the standard model of gravity: Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation

Frontier supercomputer hits new highs in third year of exascale

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The HPE Cray EX supercomputing system reported new highs for problem-solving speeds this week, updated for the TOP500 announcement at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, or SC24, in Atlanta. The score earned Frontier the No. 2 spot on the November 2024 TOP500 list, which ranks the fastest supercomputers in the world.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Enormous cache of rare Earth elements hidden inside coal ash waste

University of Texas at Austin
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Coal ash — the chalky remnants of coal that has been burned for fuel — has been piling up across the United States for decades. But new research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that the national coal ash supply contains enough rare earth elements to significantly bolster the national supply without any new mining.

Journal: International Journal of Coal Science & Technology
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

AI and human writers share stylistic fingerprints

Johns Hopkins University

People write with personal style and individual flourishes that set them apart from other writers. So does AI, including top programs like Chat GPT, new Johns Hopkins University-led research finds.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
Meeting: International Conference on Learning Representations

Swanson School of Engineering selected to receive $3.3 million to develop new electricity transmission technology

University of Pittsburgh
Grant and Award Announcement

Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering will lead a $3.3 million university/industry partnership using artificial intelligence to optimize an HVDC converter design for increased power density and decreased cost.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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