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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 7-Jun-2026 04:15 ET (7-Jun-2026 08:15 GMT/UTC)

7-Oct-2024

Pivot, not panic: Chain Reaction Innovations is driving startup success

Chain Reaction Innovations, the entrepreneurship program at Argonne National Laboratory, supports startups that have raised more than a half-billion dollars in follow-on funding since the program’s inception in 2016.

7-Oct-2024

Digging into neutrino research

DOE/US Department of Energy

As a kid, you may have tried to dig a hole in your backyard to reach China. Obviously, that didn’t happen.

But digging out a lot of ground can be quite productive. Instead of reaching another country, the scientists, engineers, and construction workers on the LBNF-DUNE project dug up rock to enable groundbreaking science.

3-Oct-2024

Argonne’s ReCell Center hosts Industry Collaboration Meeting, highlighting battery recycling partnerships

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne’s ReCell Center hosted a two-day Industry Collaboration Meeting. It was attended by major energy storage and battery recycling stakeholders in the Chicagoland community.

3-Oct-2024

South Side Showcase spotlights summer STEM projects

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

More than 150 students and their mentors, as well as leaders from 20 STEM development organizations, gathered at Chicago’s Pullman State Historic Site on August 2 to showcase projects completed during summer STEM programs.

2-Oct-2024

Brookhaven Lab user facility summer school: Building research connections

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory is home to several state-of-the-art user facilities that are key in basic research and scientific discovery. This summer, 13 students had the unique opportunity to carry out a research project across three of them: the Tandem Van de Graaff facility, Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), and National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II).

1-Oct-2024

Atmospheric observatory opens for operation in Bankhead National Forest

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

DOE's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility has established a cutting-edge atmospheric observatory in an Alabama forest to investigate the complex interactions among clouds, vegetation, and aerosols and advance weather and climate research.

1-Oct-2024

A new era of research comes into focus

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

As the upgrade of the Advanced Photon Source nears completion at Argonne National Laboratory, scientists anticipate the experimental possibilities.

30-Sep-2024

A modular neutrino detector years in the making

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The prototype DUNE 2x2 detector will capture up to 10,000 neutrino interactions per day. Researchers developed the new detector and advanced machine learning techniques to probe what all those neutrinos are up to.

27-Sep-2024

New upgrade will supercharge atomic vision of the world’s most powerful X-ray laser

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The Department of Energy (DOE) has given the green light for construction to begin on a high-energy upgrade that will further boost the performance of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world’s most powerful X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. When complete, the upgrade will allow scientists to explore atomic-scale processes with unprecedented precision and address fundamental questions in energy storage, catalysis, biology, materials science and quantum physics like never before.

26-Sep-2024

Xiaoqian Chen earns DOE Early Career Award for quantum materials research

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

iaoqian Chen, a physicist and beamline scientist at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been selected as one of the 91 early career scientists from across the country to receive research funding through the DOE Office of Science’s Early Career Research Program.