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George Crabtree, energy trailblazer remembered as a “great listener” and “boundless explorer”, dead at 78

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

George Crabtree, director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research at Argonne and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is fondly remembered for his impactful leadership that elevated energy research.

Celebrating the upcoming sPHENIX detector

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science, visited DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory on Jan. 27 to celebrate the fast-approaching debut of a state-of-the-art particle detector known as sPHENIX. The house-sized, 1000-ton detector is slated to begin collecting data at Brookhaven Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a DOE Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research, this spring.

Advanced research agency funds two Idaho National Laboratory net-zero research projects

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded more than $5.8 million to Idaho National Laboratory to support research that boosts domestic supplies of the critical elements needed to meet the nation’s clean energy goals.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

Learning Labs reopen for students at Argonne

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne’s Educational Programs and Outreach is excited to start up Learning Labs again, after having closed on-site programming for a couple of years.

Argonne researchers share in Chicago Innovation Award for COVID wastewater testing

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne’s expertise in biosafety, genetic sequencing and epidemiology help public health officials track which COVID variants are present in Illinois and monitor variants of concern.

Metal alloys to support to nuclear fusion energy

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Tungsten heavy alloys show promise for nuclear fusion energy development, according to new research conducted at PNNL.

Journal: Scientific Reports

Revolutionary environmental artificial intelligence infrastructure detailed in new report

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

A new report details the implications of artificial intelligence for earth systems and atmospheric science.

Q&A with Madhurima Vardhan, Argonne’s Margaret Butler Fellow

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

As the latest recipient of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s Margaret Butler Fellowship, Madhurima Vardhan will use Argonne’s supercomputing and AI to advance biomedical research.

Ming Ye: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

DOE/US Department of Energy

The DOE Early Career Research Program Award allowed Ming Ye at Florida State University to develop interdisciplinary approaches to quantify and reduce uncertainty in environmental studies.

Study shows advantages of charging electric heavy-duty vehicles with small modular nuclear reactors

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

Nuclear and hydrogen could be the ideal fuel for recharging electric trucks, opening potential markets for developers of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). That’s according to a University of Michigan study funded by Emerging Energy Markets Analysis, an Idaho National Laboratory (INL) initiative.

Journal: Applied Energy

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