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Green rare-earth recycling goes commercial in the US

DOE/Ames National Laboratory

An innovative method of recycling rare earth elements from electronic waste has gone commercial. A team of researchers from the Critical Materials Institute (CMI), a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory, developed a novel way to extract rare earth elements (rare earths) from the high-powered magnets in electronic waste (e-waste).

Lessons learned from intense study of COVID-19 help researchers prepare for future viral threats

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Medical research has benefitted from the intense scale, speed and efficiency of COVID-19 studies. Increased funding as well as applied methodologies, proven tools and advanced techniques help scientists stay prepared for emerging diseases and future virus threats.

Journal: Science

Safely studying dangerous infections just got a lot easier

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Soft X-ray tomography – a way to take gorgeously high-resolution, 3D images of cells – can help us study infections without risk of contamination. And now, the whole process takes just a fraction of the time and preparation required by other imaging methods.

COVID-19 in the classroom: Simulating the spread

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team led by Rao Kotamarthi at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is using supercomputers at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to study how aerosol viral particles are distributed in a ventilated classroom as part of COVID-19 research.

Funder: Biological and Environmental Research, Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research
Meeting: 74th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics

Open sourced control hardware for quantum computers

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The team at the Advanced Quantum Testbed at Berkeley Lab has designed an electronics control system for superconducting qubits—QubiC for short—that is customizable and modular and is inspired by particle accelerator R&D at Berkeley Lab's ATAP division. QubiC's hardware and software have been open sourced so that the broader QIS community can contribute to it / improve it.

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering

MIT joins Q-NEXT national quantum research center

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

MIT joins Q-NEXT, a DOE national quantum research center, becoming its 25th institutional partner.

Diverse engineering skills drive the future of X-ray science

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

A number of different kinds of engineering are required to bring the APS Upgrade online.

How can we further reduce CO2 emissions? New study reveals algae can help

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne study shows that carbon emissions that come from making ethanol can cultivate algae which in turn can be used to make biofuel.

Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production

Carbon-negative platform turns waste gases into valuable chemicals

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team of scientists from LanzaTech, Northwestern University and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed carbon capture technology that harnesses emissions from industrial processes to produce acetone and isopropanol, known as IPA. These widely used chemicals serve as the basis of thousands of products, from fuels and solvents to acrylic glass and fabrics.

Journal: Nature Biotechnology

Exploring underground ecosystems

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL scientists discover new soil viruses across different climates.

Journal: mBio