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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 7-May-2025 02:09 ET (7-May-2025 06:09 GMT/UTC)

Transforming environmental testing one shake at a time

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Testing weapons and components in a lab-controlled environment has always been at the center of Sandia National Laboratories’ mission. A newly developed method is getting better results, with fewer tests, in less time.

Pacific Northwest launches clean hydrogen energy hub

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Clean hydrogen energy infrastructure is coming to the Pacific Northwest and PNNL experts are advising the work to come.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Researchers discover faster, more energy-efficient way to manufacture an industrially important chemical

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The reactivity of zirconium on silicon nitride enhances the conversion of propane into propylene, a key commodity chemical needed to make polypropylene. This finding hints at the reactivity researchers might achieve with other nontraditional catalysts.

Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society

PNNL scientists tap nation’s fastest computers to explore critical science questions

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Researchers will explore climate, pathogens and energy-efficient microelectronics using 3 million node hours on the nation’s supercomputers.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

A new way to make element 116 opens the door to heavier atoms

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Reports and Proceedings

Researchers at Berkeley Lab’s 88-Inch Cyclotron successfully made superheavy element 116 using a beam of titanium-50. That milestone sets the team up to attempt making the heaviest element yet: 120.

Meeting: Nuclear Structure 2024

NREL researchers highlight opportunities for manufacturing perovskite solar panels with a long-term vision

DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers working at the forefront of an emerging photovoltaic (PV) technology are thinking ahead about how to scale, deploy, and design future solar panels to be easily recyclable.

Solar panels made of perovskites may eventually play an important role amid global decarbonization efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As the technology emerges from the testing stages, it is a perfect time to think critically about how best to design the solar panels to minimize their impact on the environment decades from now.

Journal: Nature Materials

Microwave popcorn to particle accelerators: magnetrons show promise as radiofrequency source

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

Building on nearly 15 years of research, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are exploring magnetrons as the drivers of modern particle accelerators. This could lower the carbon footprint of these energy-hungry machines and help them benefit societyfar beyond the realm of scientific research.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Pioneering the cellular frontier

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists use a multimodal approach that combines hard X-ray computed tomography and X-ray fluorescence imaging to see the structure and chemical processes inside of a single cell.

Journal: Nature Communications

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