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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 26-Jun-2026 21:15 ET (27-Jun-2026 01:15 GMT/UTC)

Soaking up the sun with artificial intelligence

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists have developed a machine learning method capable screening tens of thousands of compounds as solar absorbers. They used this method to identify the best candidate materials for further investigation.

Scientists grow lead-free solar material with a built-in switch

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A new solar material developed by Berkeley Lab scientists offers a simpler and more sustainable approach to solar cell manufacturing. The material’s lead-free formulation could also benefit the commercialization of perovskites, a promising solar material that requires much less energy to manufacture than silicon.

Journal: Science Advances

Jennifer Choy: Engineering atomic antennas for quantum sensing

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Profile of Jennifer Choy of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Q-NEXT. Choy develops technologies to improve quantum sensors.

Vintage SLAC accelerator software spreads its wings

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Pioneering software called ACE3P was developed almost a quarter century ago to fine-tune the design of particle accelerators and their components. Now its latest incarnation is being adapted for scientific supercomputing and manufacturing design, thanks to partnerships between two companies and DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Print, recycle, repeat: Scientists demonstrate a biodegradable printed circuit

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Scientists have developed a fully recyclable and biodegradable printed circuit. The advance could divert wearable devices and other flexible electronics from landfill, and mitigate the health and environmental hazards posed by heavy metal waste.

Journal: Advanced Materials

Garret Suen: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

DOE/US Department of Energy

Garret Suen is an associate professor of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, who is researching how herbivores use the microbes in their stomachs to break down cellulose into smaller molecules that can be converted into biofuels and bioproducts.

Working with industry, Argonne brings new technologies to the marketplace

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne’s industrial partnerships are instrumental in getting technology from the laboratory and into popular use.

Libby Johnson: On the frontier for nuclear safety

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory physicist Elizabeth “Libby” Johnson (1921-1996), one of the world’s first nuclear reactor operators, standardized the field of criticality safety with peers from ORNL and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her work came on the heels of two incidents involving nuclear materials that took the lives of two government researchers at the end of the Manhattan Project.

How the five National Quantum Information Science Research Centers harness the quantum revolution

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

The DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Centers are a collective force for quantum research in the United States, driving scientific innovation, building a quantum ecosystem and fostering the future quantum workforce.

NSLS-II researchers win 2022 Microscopy Today Innovation Award

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

On Aug. 3, 2022, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory received the 2022 Microscopy Today Innovation Award for their development of a system with bonded x-ray lenses that make nanoscale resolution more accessible than ever before. When the team at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a DOE Office of Science user facility, tested the new lens system, they achieved a resolution down to approx. 10 nanometers.