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22-Jun-2021
DOE announces $28.9 million for research to develop advanced chemical sciences software
DOE/US Department of Energy
Today, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $28.9 million in funding for nine research projects to advance the development of sophisticated software for the chemical sciences.
22-Jun-2021
PNNL AI expert harnesses open-source data to understand human behavior
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNNL researchers used natural language processing and deep learning techniques to reveal how and why different types of misinformation and disinformation spread across social platforms. Applied to COVID-19, the team found that misinformation intended to influence politics and incite fear spreads fastest.
18-Jun-2021
Accelerating the speed of science
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Researchers will be able to design their own computer accelerators for faster analysis of large datasets
16-Jun-2021
Department of Energy announces $4 million for isotope R&D
DOE/US Department of Energy
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $4 million in funding for 10 awards across 5 efforts to advance R&D for isotope production. This funding is part of a key federal program that produces critical isotopes otherwise unavailable or in short supply for U.S. science, medicine, and industry.
16-Jun-2021
An ally for alloys
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Machine learning techniques are accelerating the development of stronger alloys for power plants, which will yield efficiency, cost, and decarbonization benefits.
15-Jun-2021
Internships put futures in flight
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PNNL intern Ki Ahn spent this past year as an undergraduate at PNNL gaining hands-on research experience in clean energy storage technologies for vehicles and aviation. Ahn is enrolling in Stanford University this fall to finish his bachelor's degree. With plans to major in mechanical engineering or computer science, he wants to explore how future aircraft technologies can be designed to reduce harmful environmental effects.
15-Jun-2021
Efficient dehumidifier makes air conditioning a breeze
DOE/Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryNew energy-efficient dehumidifier technology holds promise to reduce energy consumption in residential A/C systems and increase the range of electric vehicles.
15-Jun-2021
Can artificial intelligence open new doors for materials discovery?
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
An Argonne engineer applied a specific type of artificial intelligence to the problem of how to predict material structures by only knowing some of their properties. This first-of-its-kind discovery led to further insights into the long-term durability of nuclear materials.
15-Jun-2021
Project Jupyter: A computer code that transformed science
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A computer code (Project Jupyter) co-developed by Berkeley Lab's Fernando Perez and embraced by the global science community over two decades has been hailed by Nature Magazine as one of "ten computer codes that transformed science."