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21-Apr-2023
How Argonne makes the power grid more reliable and resilient
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory helps secure the nation’s energy future through innovative methods of deeply understanding the complexities of the electric power system.
19-Apr-2023
Promising medical isotope made and processed at Brookhaven Lab
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Thanks to a recent upgrade to the medical isotope facilities at Brookhaven National Laboratory, actinium-225 (Ac-225), an isotope that shows great promise for treating cancer, can now be produced, purified, and shipped ready for use directly from the Lab. The first shipment left Brookhaven in mid-March. This upgrade will streamline the overall production and distribution of Ac-225 to research centers.
18-Apr-2023
Argonne tests gaming technology to train nuclear workforce
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Can the nuclear industry use extended reality tools to improve digital operations and maintenance? Engineers at Argonne’s Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop (METL) facility investigate.
18-Apr-2023
Emerging cyberpros tried to conquer the hill in Argonne’s latest Cyberforce® program challenge
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne and DOE pose a fun new series of challenges to students interested in developing critical cybersecurity skills.
17-Apr-2023
Location intelligence shines a light on disinformation
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Using disinformation to create political instability and battlefield confusion dates back millennia.
However, today’s disinformation actors use social media to amplify disinformation that users knowingly or, more often, unknowingly perpetuate. Such disinformation spreads quickly, threatening public health and safety. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic and recent global elections have given the world a front-row seat to this form of modern warfare.
A group at ORNL now studies such threats thanks to the evolution at the lab of location intelligence, or research that uses open data to understand places and the factors that influence human activity in them. In the past, location intelligence has informed emergency response, urban planning, transportation planning, energy conservation and policy decisions. Now, location intelligence at ORNL also helps identify disinformation, or shared information that is intentionally misleading, and its impacts.
17-Apr-2023
Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source prepares for its renewal
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
The Advanced Photon Source is about to undergo a comprehensive upgrade, one that will require a one-year pause in operations. When the APS returns to operation in 2024, its brighter X-ray beams will lead to new breakthroughs in many different areas for decades to come.
17-Apr-2023
Meet the autonomous lab of the future
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
To accelerate development of useful new materials, researchers at Berkeley Lab are building a new kind of automated lab that uses robots guided by artificial intelligence. A-Lab will rapidly test whether materials that have been computationally predicted can be made in reality. The lab’s vision is to use AI to discover materials of the future, starting with a focus on materials for batteries and energy storage.
17-Apr-2023
Testing coatings to conserve canisters against corrosion
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
To shield steel from the corrosive threats posed by sea air, Sandia National Laboratories researchers tested a variety of nickel mixtures as protective coatings on stainless steel. The researchers found that the specific material applied, and the specific application process used, impacted the properties of the coating, including how protective it was against corrosion.
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- Frontiers in Metals and Alloys
13-Apr-2023
Bright lights, big data: how Argonne is bringing supercomputing and X-rays together for scientific breakthroughs
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne’s newest supercomputer, Polaris, is up and running, and scientists using the Advanced Photon Source are already seeing faster data analysis. While the combination is paying dividends now, it points toward an upgraded APS and an even better supercomputer called Aurora.