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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 31-May-2026 11:16 ET (31-May-2026 15:16 GMT/UTC)

Student ambassadors bridge the gap

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne’s Student STEM Ambassadors program makes past and present interns a part of recruitment and outreach activities, letting them better shape the programming based on their own experiences with the lab.

Argonne’s STEM mapping project highlights opportunities on Chicago’s south side

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

STEM mapping provides communities a holistic view of community assets and collective strengths, including libraries, computer labs, makerspaces and instructional kitchens.

Light-activated acid drives energy-efficient, on-demand release of captured CO2

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Using light instead of heat, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a new way to release carbon dioxide, or CO2, from a solvent used in direct air capture, or DAC, to trap this greenhouse gas. The novel approach paves the way for economically viable separation of CO2 from the atmosphere.

Journal: Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Funder: US Department of Energy Office of Science

Argonne to recycle magnets from Advanced Photon Source in new physics experiment at Brookhaven

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne is recycling 700 magnets as its Advanced Photon Source undergoes an upgrade, and the old magnets will be used for the Electron-Ion Collider.

First of its kind dataset shows future flooding risk at neighborhood level

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Partnering with AT&T and the New York Power Authority, researchers at Argonne National Laboratory used supercomputing resources to develop a new methodology for estimating increased flood risk from climate change during the mid-21st century.

Journal: Journal of Hydrology

Women (and girls) who code

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

The CodeGirls@Argonne summer camp program helps middle school girls discover the rich possibilities of coding and provides the first steps into their own computer science pathways.

Q&A with Xiaohan Yang: Transforming plants for a cleaner future

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientist Xiaohan Yang’s research at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory focuses on transforming plants to make them better sources of renewable energy and carbon storage. He works with the ORNL-led Center for Bioenergy Innovation, or CBI, a DOE Bioenergy Research Center where scientists are developing feedstock crops like poplar trees that grow quickly, require less water and fertilizer and are easily broken down and converted into sustainable aviation fuels.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

ORNL supports EPA human health risk assessment calculators, databases

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

For 25 years, scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have used their broad expertise in human health risk assessment, ecology, radiation protection, toxicology and information management to develop widely used tools and data for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of the agency’s Superfund program.

Funder: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Argonne summer school gives underrepresented students a hands-on introduction to physical science

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Through working on foams, emulsions and gels, students learn the fundamentals of materials science, physics and chemistry in a new summer school at Argonne National Laboratory.

Listening to the radio on the far side of the moon

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Researchers can use the radio-quiet far side of the moon to listen for a never-before-heard signal from the “Dark Ages” of the universe. The LuSEE-Night experiment will act as a pathfinder for future experiments, testing equipment and techniques in the harsh lunar environment. The Berkeley Lab team is now building the experiment’s antenna, which will head to the moon and hunt for radio waves.

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