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28-Mar-2022
Xipeng Shen: Then and Now / 2011 Early Career Award Winner
DOE/US Department of Energy
By shortening simulation times and reducing energy consumption, techniques developed by North Carolina State professor Xipeng Shen are accelerating scientific research using supercomputers.
28-Mar-2022
Bioenergy scientists discover genetic pathway for better biofuel processing
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A team of researchers working with the Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has discovered a pathway to encourage a type of lignin formation in plants that could make the processing of crops grown for products such as sustainable jet fuels easier and less costly.
- Journal
- Science Advances
28-Mar-2022
Spero Renewables 'taps' Idaho National Laboratory
DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Recently, researchers at Spero Renewables, a California-based green technology company, tapped into Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL) Technical Assistance Program to work with researchers at the Biomass Feedstocks National User Facility. The program provides U.S.-based small businesses with access to INL experts and unique capabilities at no cost. Spero is using environmentally friendly practices to manufacture renewable chemicals from plant-based materials.
25-Mar-2022
Truman and Hruby 2022 fellows explore their positions
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Truman and Hruby postdoctoral fellows at Sandia National Laboratories are given extraordinary latitude to pursue their own ideas, rather than being trained by fitting into the research plans of more experienced researchers. To give wings to this concept, the four annual winners — two for each category – are 100 percent pre-funded for three years. This enables them, like bishops or knights in chess, to cut across financial barriers, walk into any group and participate in work by others that might help illuminate the research each has chosen to pursue.
24-Mar-2022
Printing circuits on rare nanomagnets puts a new spin on computing
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
New research artificially creating a rare form of matter known as spin glass could spark a new paradigm in artificial intelligence by allowing algorithms to be directly printed as physical hardware.
23-Mar-2022
Accelerated Box of Flash: Powerful computational storage for big data projects
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Data is a vital part of solving complicated scientific questions, in endeavors ranging from genomics, to climatology, to the analysis of nuclear reactions.
23-Mar-2022
A laser-powered upgrade to cancer treatment
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Biologists and particle accelerator physicists have teamed up to develop more effective and more accessible cancer treatments using laser-powered plasma ion beams.
- Journal
- Scientific Reports
22-Mar-2022
Preserving the past
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Christina Chavez, Sandia National Laboratories' first full-time archaeologist, works with teams throughout Sandia to ensure the U.S. Department of Energy remains in compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.
22-Mar-2022
Energy codes pilot study takes flight in New York
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Applying new approaches in energy codes may support improved building efficiency and decarbonization in the Big Apple and beyond.