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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 15-Sep-2025 04:11 ET (15-Sep-2025 08:11 GMT/UTC)

Teletrix expands augmented reality training platform with new commercial license

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Teletrix, a company specializing in radiation training tools, has transitioned from a research and development license to a commercial license for its augmented reality, or AR, platform that simulates ionizing radiation. This advanced platform, known as VIZRAD AR, was developed using technologies licensed from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and allows users to interact with virtual radiological environments in real time.

DOE partners with UK’s DESNZ and Tokamak Energy Ltd. to accelerate fusion energy development through a $52M upgrade to the privately owned ST40 facility

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.K.’s Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), and the private fusion company Tokamak Energy Ltd. (TE) today announced a plan to jointly sponsor a $52 million upgrade to the ST40 experimental fusion facility to advance fusion science and technology needed to deliver a future fusion pilot plant. Fusion powers the sun and stars, and, if harnessed on Earth, could provide an abundant, safe, and carbon-emissions-free energy source. This collaboration was selected through the 2025 fiscal year Office of Science open funding opportunity.

Seven researchers named to Battelle Distinguished Inventor cadre

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Seven scientists affiliated with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named Battelle Distinguished Inventors in recognition of being granted 14 or more United States patents. Since Battelle began managing ORNL in 2000, 104 ORNL researchers have reached this milestone.

The future of more sustainable cooling and heating technology could be just around the corner

DOE/Ames National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of researchers from the U. S. Department of Energy Ames National Laboratory developed a magnetocaloric heat pump that matches current vapor-compression heat pumps for weight, cost, and performance.

Journal: Applied Energy

A film capacitor that can take the heat

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab and several collaborating institutions have successfully demonstrated a machine-learning technique to accelerate discovery of materials for film capacitors — crucial components in electrification and renewable energy technologies. The technique was used to screen a library of nearly 50,000 chemical structures to identify a compound with record-breaking performance.

Journal: Nature Energy

AI helps researchers dig through old maps to find lost oil and gas wells

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Undocumented orphaned wells pose hazards to both the environment and the climate. Scientists are building modern tools to help locate, assess, and pave the way for ultimately plugging these forgotten relics.

Journal: Environmental Science & Technology

Landmark photosynthesis gene discovery boosts plant height, advances crop science

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of scientists with two Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers — the Center for Bioenergy Innovation, or CBI, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, or CABBI, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — identified a gene in a poplar tree that enhances photosynthesis and can boost tree height by about 30% in the field and by as much as 200% in the greenhouse.

Journal: Developmental Cell
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

Faster, more informed environmental permitting with AI-guided support

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Reports and Proceedings

Federal environmental permitting process to be fast-tracked with AI-powered tools and cloud-supported data analysis.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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