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PPPL scientists win highly competitive awards to bring cosmic processes to Earth

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

The two awards will enable physicists to use lasers to reproduce high-energy astrophysical plasmas under extreme conditions to probe processes such as space storms that can disrupt cell phone service.

Avoiding an energy cold crunch with more efficient cooling

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Covalent organic polymers can adsorb three times more refrigerant than the best available alternatives, resulting in more efficient cooling.

Preparing for a future pandemic with artificial intelligence

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL data scientists are refining their artificial intelligence tools with COVID-19 data to advance therapeutics and treatments for a future pandemic.

High-speed alloy creation might revolutionize hydrogen’s future

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

A Sandia National Laboratories team of materials scientists and computer scientists have spent more than a year helping to create 12 new alloys — and model hundreds more — that demonstrate how machine learning can help accelerate the future of hydrogen energy.

Enclosing radiation-loaded particles to better seek and destroy cancer

DOE/US Department of Energy

When medical isotopes are used to treat diseases, they emit large amounts of energy that makes it hard to keep them near the target cells. Researchers are now testing a way to enclose isotopes in tiny pieces of biodegradable material that will keep the isotopes at treatment sites, ensuring that their energy can kill diseased cells with little effect on surrounding cells.

One year in, Q-NEXT quantum research center is going strong

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

The article summarizes Q-NEXT’s first year of activities, including scientific research, infrastructure building, and workforce development.

ORNL expertise supports latest IPCC report and efforts to understand, address climate change

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Improved data, models and analyses from Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists and many other researchers in the latest global climate assessment report provide new levels of certainty about what the future holds for the planet and highlight the urgency of decarbonization to avoid the most severe impacts.

Living laboratory, biodiversity hub: The Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Nestled at the intersection of eastern Tennessee’s Anderson and Roane Counties, the Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park is a living laboratory and a major resource for conducting ecological studies.

Keeping waste where it belongs: Grain size explains how spent nuclear fuel enters the environment

DOE/US Department of Energy

When compounds in spent nuclear fuel break down, they can release radioactive elements into the ground and water. Scientists know that one fuel compound, neptunium dioxide, reacts with water, but they do not fully understand the process. This new study found that neptunium tends to dissolve where grains of the material come together, and larger grains are less likely to dissolve.

The Lab in the living room: Summer interns delve into plasma and fusion research from their homes

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Summer interns working for PPPL did hands-on research from their computers in their bedrooms or on their dining room tables all over the U.S. They worked closely with PPPL physicists and engineers on research aimed at understanding ionized gases called plasmas.