Feature Stories
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 30-Jun-2025 18:10 ET (30-Jun-2025 22:10 GMT/UTC)
25-Feb-2025
Quantum career fair celebrates 100 years of quantum mechanics
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryThe U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers hosted the fourth annual QIS Career Fair on Jan. 22, 2025.
21-Feb-2025
Dialing in scientific and operational performance
DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Jefferson Lab’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning professionals ensure optimal operation of operational and scientific facilities through their technical expertise.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
19-Feb-2025
Germanium detectors help ORNL physicists unlock the mysteries of the universe
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryRelying on leading-edge germanium detectors developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the scientific community pursues elusive nuclear processes to unlock persistent mysteries. Answers to questions they hope to resolve hold the potential to redefine the universe itself.
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- US Department of Energy Office of Science (Office of Nuclear Physics)
19-Feb-2025
What is quantum coherence?
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
What is of quantum coherence and how it is used for quantum sensing and quantum computing applications?
18-Feb-2025
Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration!
DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the previous record for plasma duration achieved with a tokamak. This leap forward demonstrates how our knowledge of plasmas and technological control of them over longer periods is becoming more mature, and offers hope that fusion plasmas can be stabilised for greater amounts of time in machines such as ITER.
18-Feb-2025
INL’s enduring mission: How high-flux thermal irradiation testing became a foundation for US nuclear leadership
DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Seventy-five years ago, the sweeping landscape of the Idaho desert over the Snake River Aquifer was a land of sagebrush, brown grass and lava rock. Today, the desert site facilities of Idaho National Laboratory are still home to sagebrush, brown grass and lava rock but also to of some of the world’s most cutting-edge nuclear fuel research and reactor prototype development.
17-Feb-2025
Self-driving lab transforms materials discovery
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed an AI-driven automated material laboratory, Polybot, an autonomous discovery platform that explores processing pathways to produce high-quality electronic polymer films with optimized conductivity and low-defect coatings, offering practical guidance for scalable production.
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- Nature Communications
13-Feb-2025
Photographing DUNE
DOE/Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryDocumenting the work of building the world’s largest neutrino experiment presents photographers with a unique set of challenges.
5-Feb-2025
SandiaAI chat: New tool for creating efficiencies
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories became the first facility within the nuclear security enterprise to provide its employees with access to this powerful new tool with SandiaAI Chat, enabling them to ask sensitive unclassified questions.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy