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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.

From innovation to industry: ORNL Researchers complete Energy I-Corps program

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Nick Gregorich and Syed Islam, ORNL R&D staff, recently completed Cohort 19 of the Energy I-Corps program, an initiative of DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions, or OTT, that provides teams of researchers and industry mentors with an immersive two-month training to develop commercialization pathways for laboratory-developed technologies.

Employee-led giving at ORNL nets over $1.1M for area nonprofits, disaster relief in 2024

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORNL staff and its managing contractor, UT-Battelle, donated $1,104,866 in the 2024 ORNL Gives campaign, an annual employee-led effort to address needs throughout East Tennessee.

Argonne releases Aurora exascale supercomputer to researchers, enabling accelerated science

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

With its Aurora exascale supercomputer, Argonne National Laboratory is providing researchers with a powerful tool to accelerate discoveries across many fields, including biology, chemistry and AI for science.

Mining the dark sky with the Aurora exascale supercomputer

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

As part of the Aurora Early Science Program, an Argonne team is using the lab’s new Aurora exascale supercomputer and AI tools to perform simulations of the universe that aim to shed light on dark matter and dark energy.

Orchestrating the nanoscale: exploring light and matter for quantum science

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

As part of the Q-NEXT quantum research center, Randall Goldsmith of the University of Wisconsin–Madison studies the interplay of light and matter, harnessing it for quantum information technologies.

Sandia’s economic impact soars to $5.2B in 2024

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories achieved a record-breaking economic impact of $5.2 billion for 2024, surpassing the previous year’s figure by more than $423 million.

Next-level semiconductor testing available

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new automated testing capability for semiconductor devices, which is newly available to researchers and industry partners in the Grid Research Integration and Deployment Center, or GRID-C.

Argonne team delivers a 100x speedup of genetic data analysis from the Million Veteran Program

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Computer scientists from Argonne National Laboratory enabled a 100x speedup in the analysis of genetic associations that may be causal in disease formation using the world’s most diverse genetic biobank, the VA’s Million Veteran Program (MVP).

Artificial imagination

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Kevin Yager, the Electronic Nanomaterials group leader at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), has articulated an overarching vision for the role of AI in scientific research. It’s called a science exocortex — “exo” meaning outside and “cortex” referencing the information processing layer of the human brain. Rather than simple chatbots and scientific assistants, the conceptualized exocortex will be an extension of a scientist’s brain. Researchers will interact with it through conversation, without the need for any invasive brain-computer interfaces.

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