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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 2-Nov-2025 13:11 ET (2-Nov-2025 18:11 GMT/UTC)

18-Nov-2024

New program aims to BRIDGE gap in solar

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratrories is collaborating with Red Cloud Renewable to train Native American women in photovoltaic panel installation. Native American women are significantly underrepresented in the solar installation field, making up just 0.05% of the industry, according to Red Cloud Renewable.

15-Nov-2024

How microbes create the most toxic form of mercury

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

SLAC’s SSRL helps pin down key players in the microbial production of methylmercury, a poison that can accumulate in fish.

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

15-Nov-2024

DOE’s Quantum Computing User Program releases request for information to father input on quantum computing access

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The Department of Energy's Quantum Computing User Program at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is releasing a Request for Information to understand the latest in quantum computing hardware, software tools and user engagement.

14-Nov-2024

Argonne to explore novel ways to fight cancer and transform vaccine discovery with over $21 million from ARPA-H

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Argonne has received up to $21 million from ARPA-H to use AI and supercomputing in two projects: one targeting hard-to-treat tumors, and another aiming to create vaccines for multiple viral threats, including cancer and pandemics.

13-Nov-2024

How ‘clean’ does a quantum computing test facility need to be? PNNL scientists show the way

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

How to keep stray radiation from “shorting” superconducting qubits; a pair of studies shows where ionizing radiation is lurking and how to banish it.

Journal

PRX Quantum

Funder

DOE/US Department of Energy

11-Nov-2024

Seiber elevated to IEEE senior member

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Larry Seiber, an R&D staff member in the Vehicle Power Electronics group at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elevated to senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE. 

7-Nov-2024

Researchers drive solid-state innovation for renewable energy storage

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists are developing a formula for success – by studying how a new type of battery fails. The team’s goal is the design for long-term storage of wind and solar energy, which are produced intermittently, enabling their broader use as reliable energy sources for the electric grid. 

Journal

Batteries & Supercaps

6-Nov-2024

Scientists calculate predictions for meson measurements

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Calculations of charge distribution in mesons provide benchmark for experimental measurements and validate widely used 'factorization' method for imaging the building blocks of matter.

Journal

Physical Review Letters

Funder

DOE/US Department of Energy