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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 2-Jul-2025 08:11 ET (2-Jul-2025 12:11 GMT/UTC)
3-Oct-2024
Argonne’s ReCell Center hosts Industry Collaboration Meeting, highlighting battery recycling partnerships
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne’s ReCell Center hosted a two-day Industry Collaboration Meeting. It was attended by major energy storage and battery recycling stakeholders in the Chicagoland community.
3-Oct-2024
South Side Showcase spotlights summer STEM projects
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
More than 150 students and their mentors, as well as leaders from 20 STEM development organizations, gathered at Chicago’s Pullman State Historic Site on August 2 to showcase projects completed during summer STEM programs.
2-Oct-2024
Brookhaven Lab user facility summer school: Building research connections
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory is home to several state-of-the-art user facilities that are key in basic research and scientific discovery. This summer, 13 students had the unique opportunity to carry out a research project across three of them: the Tandem Van de Graaff facility, Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), and National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II).
1-Oct-2024
Atmospheric observatory opens for operation in Bankhead National Forest
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
DOE's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility has established a cutting-edge atmospheric observatory in an Alabama forest to investigate the complex interactions among clouds, vegetation, and aerosols and advance weather and climate research.
1-Oct-2024
A new era of research comes into focus
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
As the upgrade of the Advanced Photon Source nears completion at Argonne National Laboratory, scientists anticipate the experimental possibilities.
30-Sep-2024
A modular neutrino detector years in the making
DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
The prototype DUNE 2x2 detector will capture up to 10,000 neutrino interactions per day. Researchers developed the new detector and advanced machine learning techniques to probe what all those neutrinos are up to.
27-Sep-2024
New upgrade will supercharge atomic vision of the world’s most powerful X-ray laser
DOE/SLAC National Accelerator LaboratoryThe Department of Energy (DOE) has given the green light for construction to begin on a high-energy upgrade that will further boost the performance of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world’s most powerful X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at the DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. When complete, the upgrade will allow scientists to explore atomic-scale processes with unprecedented precision and address fundamental questions in energy storage, catalysis, biology, materials science and quantum physics like never before.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
26-Sep-2024
Xiaoqian Chen earns DOE Early Career Award for quantum materials research
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
iaoqian Chen, a physicist and beamline scientist at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been selected as one of the 91 early career scientists from across the country to receive research funding through the DOE Office of Science’s Early Career Research Program.
25-Sep-2024
AI-guided experiments speed scientific discovery
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Artificial intelligence, high-throughput experimentation, and materials science expertise combine to efficiently develop next-generation energy storage materials.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy