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21-Jul-2021
DOE invests $13 million in research on adapting scientific software to next-gen supercomputers
DOE/US Department of Energy
The US Department of Energy (DOE) today announced more than $13 million for five advanced-computing projects across nine states, including $4.4 million to US universities.
21-Jul-2021
Harnessing the power of uranium to treat disease
DOE/US Department of Energy
Scientists have developed a new system for producing radioisotopes for cancer therapy. The system uses a simple radionuclide generator to repeatedly separate thorium-226 from its longer-lived parent isotope, uranium-230. The uranium-230/thorium-226 pair has the unique advantage of emitting multiple alpha particles as they decay, delivering more destructive energy to cancer cells.
20-Jul-2021
DOE announces $127 million for small business research and development grants
DOE/US Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced awards totaling $127 million to a diverse set of small businesses working on advanced scientific tools and clean, secure energy for the American people.
20-Jul-2021
Scientists further their investigation into the origin of elements in the universe
DOE/US Department of Energy
The slow neutron-capture process (the s-process) in nucleosynthesis results in about half of the elements heavier than iron in the universe. Two important reactions in the s-process are Neon-22 (alpha, gamma) and Neon-22 (alpha, neutron), which affect the abundances of elements such as Selenium, Krypton, Rubidium, Strontium, and Zirconium. Researchers recently used two indirect methods to study the reactions.
16-Jul-2021
DOE provides $28 million to advance scientific discovery using supercomputers
DOE/US Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $28 million in funding for five research projects to develop software that will fully unleash the potential of DOE supercomputers to make new leaps in fields such as quantum information science and chemical reactions for clean energy applications.
16-Jul-2021
DOE Office of Science now accepting applications for Spring 2022 undergraduate internships
DOE/US Department of Energy
Applications are currently being accepted for the Spring 2022 term of two undergraduate internship programs offered by the DOE Office of Science: the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program and the Community College Internships (CCI) program.
13-Jul-2021
Zeke Unterberg: Then and Now / 2011 Early Career Award Winner
DOE/US Department of Energy
Zeke Unterberg is a senior research scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab, studying ways to optimize the operations and materials for future nuclear fusion reactors.
8-Jul-2021
Glancing into a nuclear mirror: the fate of Aluminum-26 in stars
DOE/US Department of Energy
Aluminum-26 has a quantum state difficult to study in a lab. Scientists instead use ion beam-target interactions to create an environment that adds a neutron to the radioactive isotope Silicon-26 to study excited quantum states in Silicon-27. This approach is possible because of the symmetry between protons and neutrons. This provides rare insight into processes in stars.
8-Jul-2021
DOE awards $15.6 million for atmospheric research to improve climate modeling
DOE/US Department of Energy
The US Department of Energy (DOE) today awarded $15.6 million for new research studying the properties, formation, and interactions between atmospheric clouds and the aerosols that form them.