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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 1-May-2025 11:08 ET (1-May-2025 15:08 GMT/UTC)
31-Oct-2024
Scientists prepare for the most ambitious sky survey yet, anticipating new insight on dark matter and dark energy
DOE/Argonne National LaboratoryIn preparation for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, Argonne scientists are performing advanced cosmological simulations and working with the Rubin Observatory to shape and process its data to maximize the potential for discovery.
30-Oct-2024
Celebrating spooky science
DOE/US Department of Energy
Science isn’t scary, but it can be spooky! For Halloween, we’re highlighting some “spooky” research that the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science supports. In fact, the physics community celebrates Dark Matter Day on Halloween! We hope that this roundup puts you in the mood to dig a little deeper into the wonders that surround you.
30-Oct-2024
Hunting for dark matter axions
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
The search for dark matter includes expertise in radio frequency signal detection, quantum sensing, and high-energy physics at PNNL.
- Funder
- DOE/US Department of Energy
29-Oct-2024
Argonne builds on past success with cathode design for lithium-ion batteries
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne develops a breakthrough material for the cathode in lithium-ion batteries. It enables an across-the-board improvement in battery performance, supporting widespread adoption of electric vehicles and grid batteries.
29-Oct-2024
Collaboration speeds complex chemical modeling
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Calculating quantum chemistry quickly allows scientists to refine their understanding of complex chemical systems.
- Journal
- Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
28-Oct-2024
Everything you always wanted to know about large language models for science (but were afraid to ask)
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Large language models are changing the way that people create and communicate, but they can also change the way we do science. Researchers from Argonne National Laboratory hope to demystify these tools and share how they’re shaping future research.
28-Oct-2024
Researchers eye ‘topological signatures’ of cyber threats
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNNL researchers are developing a new approach to explore the higher-dimensional shape of cyber systems to identify signatures of adversarial attacks.
25-Oct-2024
Cool journey to the center of the Earth
DOE/US Department of EnergyPatience and complexity are the hallmarks of fundamental scientific research. It takes time to do what we do at the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.
Case in point: Technical staff at the DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have built a prototype of a superconducting cryomodule for the Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II) project.
25-Oct-2024
Researchers use Summit to track down nuclear fission’s elusive scission neutron
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Researchers from the University of Washington, Seattle, or UW, and Los Alamos National Laboratory used the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to answer one of fission’s biggest questions: What exactly happens during the nucleus’s “neck rupture” as it splits in two?
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters