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Aluminum alloy manufacturing now 50% more energy efficient

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A new extrusion process eliminates pre-heating to provide significant energy savings during production of extruded aluminum alloys.

Journal: Materials & Design

Meet Kayla Hernandez: Electrical engineer helps send particle beams into RHIC

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Meet Kayla Hernandez: Electrical Engineer Helps Send Particle Beams Into RHIC

20th anniversary of Sandia tribal energy internship program

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

2022 marks a major milestone for Sandia National Laboratories’ groundbreaking tribal energy internship program: two decades of meeting the growing renewable energy technical needs of Native American tribes and providing valuable, real-world experience for Native and Alaska Native STEM students.

Statistics unlock secrets of particles, pandemics, and more

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

What do physicists exploring the fundamental particles that make up our universe and doctors tracking COVID-19 cases have in common? Statistics! Both sift through enormous amounts of data looking for patterns. Now members of this not-so-unlikely partnership are spreading the word about the power of statistics with math and science teachers and students.

Neuroscience simulations shed light on origins of human brain recordings

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Using simulations run at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a team of researchers has found the origin of cortical surface electrical signals in the brain and discovered why the signals originate where they do.

Berkeley Lab researchers record successful startup of LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Deep below the Black Hills of South Dakota in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), an innovative and uniquely sensitive dark matter detector - the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, led by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) - has passed a check-out phase of startup operations and delivered first results.

Céline Bonfils : Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

DOE/US Department of Energy

Physicist Céline Bonfils studies the multiple influences affecting climate change. Her team identified these “fingerprints” in historical climate simulations to help separate the signals from the noise in observations.

The futuristic South Pole Telescope looks far back in time

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Designed to detect the oldest light in the universe, the South Pole Telescope is helping researchers at Argonne and around the world to learn about the beginnings of the universe.

Cooking up a conductive alternative to copper with aluminum

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The first-ever simulation of aluminum conductivity offers a recipe for an inexpensive, lightweight alternative to copper.

Journal: Physical Review B

Pioneering partnership opens doors to a new generation of engineers

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

In a pioneering partnership, Argonne, the DOE Packaging Certification Program, the University of Nevada, Reno, and other DOE national labs are helping to meet demand for new expertise in nuclear packaging by offering a novel graduate certificates program that trains future leaders in the field.