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Brookhaven Lab Biophysicist F. William Studier awarded Merkin prize in biomedical technology

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

F. William Studier, a senior biophysicist emeritus at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, has won the 2024 Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology for his development in the 1980s of an efficient, scalable method of producing RNA and proteins in the laboratory.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Speedy, secure, sustainable — that's the future of telecom

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new device that can process information using a small amount of light could enable energy-efficient and secure communications.

Journal: Nature Photonics

Using artificial intelligence to speed up and improve the most computationally-intensive aspects of plasma physics in fusion

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are using artificial intelligence to perfect the design of the vessels surrounding the super-hot plasma, optimize heating methods and maintain stable control of the reaction for increasingly long periods. A new paper published in Nature Communications demonstrates PPPL's expertise in this area. The paper explains how the researcher team used machine learning to avoid magnetic perturbations, or disruptions, which destabilize fusion plasma.

Journal: Nature Communications
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DOE lands top two spots on list of fastest supercomputers

DOE/US Department of Energy
Business Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Aurora supercomputer has officially broken the exascale barrier. Today at the 2024 ISC High Performance conference in Hamburg, Germany, the 63^rd edition of the high performance computing Top500 list announced that DOE holds the #1 and #2 positions for most powerful supercomputers in the world. The Top500’s benchmark has long been the world’s measuring stick for large scale supercomputing performance.

Oppenheimer fellows to gain broader view of national labs

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

Two physicists at Jefferson Lab have been selected as fellows for the distinguished Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program (OSELP), considered the highest honor for leadership training among national labs. Douglas Higinbotham, operations director for the lab’s physics division, and Mike Spata, deputy associate director of accelerator operations and research and development, have joined 29 other individuals from 17 national laboratories across the country as the 2024 cohort of the program designed to cultivate and retain talented leaders.

Designer peptoids mimic nature’s helices

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

PNNL researchers learn to control peptoid “handedness,” one key to precision drug delivery and diagnostics.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

For sustainable aviation fuel, researchers engineer a promising microorganism for precursor production

DOE/US Department of Energy
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers used advanced computing techniques to engineer the bacteria Pseudomonas putida to optimize its production of isoprenol using carbon from plant material. Isoprenol has a potential role in the production of jet biofuel blendstocks. This work is therefore a step toward sustainable jet fuel production, which could help control carbon dioxide emissions and climate change.

Journal: Metabolic Engineering

Argonne to launch new project to decarbonize iron production

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Argonne National Laboratory will be receiving $3 million over three years to lead a project on developing a technology for ironmaking with zero carbon emissions and lower required energy.

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