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26-Nov-2024

Delay and pay: Tipping point costs quadruple after waiting

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The cost of reversing the effects of climate change—restoring melted polar sea ice, for example—quickly climbs nearly fourfold soon after a tipping point is crossed, according to new work publishing in the journal npj Climate and Atmospheric Science on Tuesday, Nov. 26. Much work has been done to explore the environmental costs tied to climate change. But this new study marks the first time researchers have quantified the costs of controlling tipping points before and after they unfold.

Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

25-Nov-2024

Gordon Bell Climate Prize goes to Kaust Frontier Users’ Exascale Climate Emulator

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A team of researchers led by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, Saudi Arabia, are this year’s winner of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. The team developed an exascale climate emulator with radically enhanced resolution but without the computational expense and data storage requirements of state-of-the-art climate models.

25-Nov-2024

Game-changing quantum chemistry calculations on frontier earn Gordon Bell Prize

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers led by the University of Melbourne, Australia, are winners of the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2024 Gordon Bell Prize in supercomputing for conducting a quantum molecular dynamics simulation 1,000 times greater in size and speed than any previous simulation of its kind. Using Frontier, the world’s most powerful supercomputer, the team calculated a system containing more than 2 million correlated electrons.

Funder: Advanced Scientific Computing Research

22-Nov-2024

Accessing the lesser known nucleon

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New results published in Physical Review Letters describe a first-time glimpse of the internal structure of the neutron thanks to the development of a special, 10-years-in-the-making detector installed in Experimental Hall B at Jefferson Lab.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

20-Nov-2024

Argonne plays critical role in assessing small modular reactor applications to rebuild a clean economy in post-war Ukraine

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Small modular reactors could play key role in rebuilding a clean economy in post-war Ukraine. Argonne scientists will assess the emerging technology in new research.

19-Nov-2024

New DESI results weigh in on gravity

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Reports and Proceedings

Researchers used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to map how nearly 6 million galaxies cluster across 11 billion years of cosmic history. Their observations line up with what Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts.

19-Nov-2024

Thermochemical tech shows promising path for building heat

DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Energy stored in thermochemical materials can effectively heat indoor spaces, particularly in humid regions, according to researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Journal: Applied Energy

19-Nov-2024

Spinning fusion fuel for efficiency

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new method to increase fusion-fuel efficiency would involve aligning the quantum spin of deuterium and tritium and changing the mix of the two fuels. The approach could boost tritium-burn efficiency by up to 10 times, reducing tritium needs and lowering fusion system costs. The technique could lead to safer, more compact fusion systems, making fusion energy more practical and affordable.

Journal: Nuclear Fusion