DOE announces $218 million for quantum information science
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30-Aug-2018
When Your X-Ray Subject Has Wings: Peering Inside Insects with the Advanced Photon Source
DOE/US Department of EnergyOne of the world's most powerful x-ray machines offers scientists studying insects a unique resource to see inside of them. Using the Advanced Photon Source, researchers can watch and record how insects' internal mechanisms work in real-time.
23-Aug-2018
From great prairie to gigabytes: Sequencing the genomes of a microbial ecosystem
DOE/US Department of Energy
The American Midwest's Great Prairie is one of the country's most important ecological systems and its soil microbes are essential to the carbon cycle. The Great Prairie Metagenome Grand Challenge is sequencing the genes of microbial communities to better understand their ecological role.
26-Jul-2018
Quantum computing: Learning to speak a whole new technology
DOE/US Department of Energy
Quantum computers work in a fundamentally different way than classical computers. Computer scientists need to start from scratch when creating algorithms for them to run. Three teams from the Department of Energy's laboratories are developing the foundations for new computer languages and programs.
13-Jul-2018
How to fit a planet inside a computer: Developing the energy exascale earth system model
DOE/US Department of Energy
The Department of Energy has developed a new computer simulation capability: the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). Scientists designed the model to focus on areas most relevant to energy production as well as take full advantage of DOE's supercomputing systems. To make the new model as accurate as possible, they investigated issues that could cause inaccuracies, modified components to put in the new model, and created completely new subsystems for it when necessary.
22-Jun-2018
DOE selects 84 scientists to receive early career research program funding
DOE/US Department of EnergyGrant and Award Announcement
The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 84 scientists from across the nation -- including 30 from DOE's national laboratories and 54 from U.S. universities -- to receive significant funding for research as part of the DOE Office of Science's Early Career Research Program.
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21-Jun-2018
Actinium-225: How scientists discovered a new way to produce a rare medical radioisotope
DOE/US Department of Energy
Actinium-225 is a promising isotope for cancer treatment. However, there is only a very limited supply of it. The Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory is one of the few places in the world that can produce it. In the last few years, researchers at Oak Ridge have collaborated with scientists at DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory to use particle accelerators to produce this isotope and expand its availability.
8-Jun-2018
Oak Ridge National Laboratory launches america's new top supercomputer for science
DOE/US Department of EnergyBusiness Announcement
The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) unveiled Summit as the world's most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer.
4-Jun-2018
From leaves to clouds: Revealing how trees' emissions shape the air around us
DOE/US Department of Energy
Scientists supported by the Department of Energy are studying how biological emissions from trees interact with the atmosphere. These emissions, known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), react with other gases to become particles. These particles, called secondary organic aerosols, influence cloud formation. The GoAmazon project studies this process in the Amazonian rainforest to provide data that can improve climate models.
10-Apr-2018
Fusion research ignites innovation
DOE/US Department of Energy
To conduct fusion research, scientists at the Department of Energy's national laboratories have often had to develop entirely new technologies. In several cases, these technologies have gone on to be extremely useful in other areas, from electronics manufacturing to nuclear radiation detection.