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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 19-Apr-2025 21:08 ET (20-Apr-2025 01:08 GMT/UTC)

Sky’s the limit for biofuels

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Reports and Proceedings

The United States has enough biomass potential to produce 35 billion gallons per year of aviation biofuel by 2050, a new report confirms. ORNL’s John Field provided biomass feedstock production expertise to the report focused on the role of the bioeconomy in U.S. decarbonization strategies.

DOE announces new decadal fusion energy strategy

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today marked the two-year anniversary of the Biden-Harris Administration's launch of the U.S. Bold Decadal Vision for Commercial Fusion Energy with the release of the DOE Fusion Energy Strategy 2024 and an event at the White House co-hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Study reveals reversible assembly of platinum catalyst

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University (SBU), and their collaborators have uncovered new details of the reversible assembly and disassembly of a platinum catalyst. The new understanding may offer clues to the catalyst’s stability and recyclability.

Journal: Nanoscale
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Updating the way the Lab computes

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Business Announcement

Shantenu Jha, former chair of the Data-Driven Discovery Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been named the new head of computational sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). Jha is excited to be at the helm of the Lab’s computing efforts, fusing computer science expertise with PPPL’s pioneering research into the fourth state of matter.

Tennessee institutions partner to develop dependable AI for national security applications

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

At the Tennessee Valley Corridor Summit 2024 in Nashville, Tenn., on Wednesday, Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced a partnership to develop training, testing and evaluation methods that will accelerate the Department of Defense’s adoption of AI-based systems in operational environments.

JPMorgan Chase, Argonne and Quantinuum show theoretical quantum speedup with the quantum approximate optimization algorithm

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers demonstrated a quantum algorithmic speedup with the quantum approximate optimization algorithm, laying the groundwork for advancements in telecommunications, financial modeling, materials science and more.

Journal: Science Advances

Experimental physics leads to award-winning research

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

Jefferson Lab Staff Scientist Holly Szumila-Vance earns the 2024 Guido Altarelli Award for outstanding contributions to experimental physics.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

A cleaner way to produce ammonia

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Ammonia is the starting point for the fertilizers that have secured the world’s food supply for the last century. It’s also a main component of cleaning products, and is even considered as a future carbon-free replacement for fossil fuels in vehicles. But synthesizing ammonia from molecular nitrogen is an energy-intensive industrial process, due to the high temperatures and pressures at which the standard reaction proceeds. Scientists at Berkeley Lab have a new way to produce ammonia that works at room temperature and pressure.

Journal: Chem Catalysis

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