11-Mar-2025 Breaking boundaries in biomedicine: Advanced Photon Source enables protein design DOE/Argonne National Laboratory A team of scientists in the lab of Nobel Prize winner David Baker has created a method for designing proteins that can bind and sense a range of small molecules, with wide applications for biomedicine and environmental protection. Journal Science
10-Mar-2025 Fusion for the future: Nuclear lab plays key role in testing a crucial technology DOE/Idaho National Laboratory A cutting-edge project to test “fusion blanket” technologies is taking shape, with the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) leading the charge to create a critical component of a fusion reactor.
6-Mar-2025 Recycling products from the inside out DOE/Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — What if plastics could self-destruct when their time as a useful product ends? Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are exploring this concept in one of their latest projects.
5-Mar-2025 AI/ML's bright future at NSLS-II DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory Advances in automation, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) are transforming how research is done at NSLS-II, streamlining workflows, enhancing productivity, and alleviating workloads for both users and staff.
4-Mar-2025 Scientists cook up the perfect recipe to feed an energy future DOE/Idaho National Laboratory After five years of trying to find the right ingredients, scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) believe they have created the perfect recipe to fuel the world’s first critical fast-spectrum molten salt reactor.
4-Mar-2025 New HIV vaccine candidate discovered with help from Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Protein crystallization at the SER-CAT beamline at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source proved key to the discovery of a new HIV vaccine candidate. Journal Cell
3-Mar-2025 QSA quantum technologies advance insights into materials physics DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory QSA scientists have advanced major quantum computing technologies based on superconducting qubits, trapped ions, and neutral atoms. These different technologies can be applied in quantum science to study fundamental phenomena and advance new materials. The scientific and technological progress in materials physics led by QSA facilitates the understanding and design of novel properties in superconductors, quantum spin liquids, magnetism, and topological materials.
3-Mar-2025 Exploring quantum materials for a new generation of technology DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory A technique called resonant inelastic X-ray scattering, or RIXS, is particularly suited for probing samples as thin as one atomic layer and material states that change very rapidly. With recent technological developments, researchers expect this technique to enable studies that were unthinkable only five years ago. This progress gave Mark Dean and three colleagues — Matteo Mitrano, Steven Johnston, and Young-June Kim — the impetus to chart where the field is going as a whole. So, they summarized the technique’s state of the art and how they expect the field to progress in a Perspective paper, recently published in Physical Review X. Journal Physical Review X
27-Feb-2025 The US Department of Energy announces Xander Newlun as the 2025 Conquer the Hill Command Competition winner DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory announced Xander Newlun from the University of Texas at San Antonio won the 2025 Conquer the Hill® Command competition.
26-Feb-2025 Scientists lay out vision for AI-based ‘labs of the future’ DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory A workshop led by scientists at ORNL sketched a road map toward a longtime goal: development of autonomous, or self-driving, next-generation research laboratories.
