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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 15-Sep-2025 01:11 ET (15-Sep-2025 05:11 GMT/UTC)

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

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

Argonne team breaks new ground in AI-driven protein design

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

An Argonne-led team developed an AI-driven multimodal framework that incorporates experimental data and text-based narratives to accelerate the design of new proteins. A finalist for the Gordon Bell Prize, the effort used five top supercomputers, including Argonne’s Aurora exascale system.

Imaging nuclear shapes by smashing them to smithereens

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have demonstrated a new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to reveal subtle details about the shapes of atomic nuclei. The method is complementary to lower energy techniques for determining nuclear structure. It will add depth to scientists’ understanding of the nuclei that make up the bulk of visible matter.

Journal: Nature
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Ensuring a bright future for diamond electronics and sensors

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

To expand the potential use of diamond in semiconductor and quantum technologies, researchers are developing improved processes for growing the material at lower temperatures that won’t damage the silicon in computer chips. These advances include insights into creating protective hydrogen layers on quantum diamonds without damaging crucial properties like nitrogen-vacancy centers.

Journal: Diamond and Related Materials
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation, DOE/US Department of Energy, Australian Research Council

Argonne to help drive AI revolution in astronomy with new institute led by Northwestern University

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A group of institutions, including Argonne National Laboratory, received a $20 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation and Simons Foundation to establish an AI and astronomy institute called the NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky (SkAI).

American Physical Society recognizes ORNL’s historic Graphite Reactor

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The American Physical Society has recognized the Graphite Reactor, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as an APS historic site. APS President Young-Kee Kim presented a plaque commemorating the recognition on Monday, Nov. 4, the 81st anniversary of the reactor’s first achieving criticality in 1943.

Frontier users’ Exascale Climate Emulator nominated for Gordon Bell Climate Prize

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, Saudi Arabia, has been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2024 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.

Funder: Advanced Scientific Computing Research

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