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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 15-Jun-2025 10:09 ET (15-Jun-2025 14:09 GMT/UTC)

Subtle edits yield big results in microbes

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Colorado Boulder used a gene-silencing tool and a large library of molecular guides to understand how photosynthetic bacteria adapt to light and temperature changes. They found that even partial suppression of certain genes yielded big benefits in modifying the stress response of wild microbes.

Innovation is motivation

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Grant and Award Announcement

Fan was recently named Outstanding Researcher by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, a group dedicated to accelerating federal technologies in the marketplace.

Maximal entanglement sheds new light on particle creation

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called jets retain information about their origins in subatomic particle smashups.

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

A surprise contender for cooling computers: lasers

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Minnesota-based startup Maxwell Labs has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico to demonstrate laser-based photonic cooling for computer chips.

Study tracks chromium chemistry in irradiated molten salts

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory report that radiation-induced chemical reactions may help mitigate the corrosion of metals in a new type of nuclear reactor cooled by molten salts.

Journal: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

AAAS elects five ORNL scientists as fellows

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Five scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals.

PNNL scientist elected AAAS fellow

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Chemist Zheming Wang is the newest AAAS Fellow, joining the ranks of astronaut Mae Jemison, and Steven Chu, 1997 Nobel laureate in physics who served as the 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy.

Jefferson Lab Director Kimberly Sawyer named to CoVaBIZ Magazine’s 150 Most Influential People List

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Business Announcement

https://www.jlab.org/news/releases/jefferson-lab-director-kimberly-sawyer-named-covabiz-magazines-150-most-influential

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

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