19-Feb-2025 What is quantum coherence? DOE/Argonne National Laboratory What is of quantum coherence and how it is used for quantum sensing and quantum computing applications?
18-Feb-2025 Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration! DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the previous record for plasma duration achieved with a tokamak. This leap forward demonstrates how our knowledge of plasmas and technological control of them over longer periods is becoming more mature, and offers hope that fusion plasmas can be stabilised for greater amounts of time in machines such as ITER.
18-Feb-2025 INL’s enduring mission: How high-flux thermal irradiation testing became a foundation for US nuclear leadership DOE/Idaho National Laboratory Seventy-five years ago, the sweeping landscape of the Idaho desert over the Snake River Aquifer was a land of sagebrush, brown grass and lava rock. Today, the desert site facilities of Idaho National Laboratory are still home to sagebrush, brown grass and lava rock but also to of some of the world’s most cutting-edge nuclear fuel research and reactor prototype development.
17-Feb-2025 Self-driving lab transforms materials discovery DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed an AI-driven automated material laboratory, Polybot, an autonomous discovery platform that explores processing pathways to produce high-quality electronic polymer films with optimized conductivity and low-defect coatings, offering practical guidance for scalable production. Journal Nature Communications
13-Feb-2025 Photographing DUNE DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Documenting the work of building the world’s largest neutrino experiment presents photographers with a unique set of challenges.
5-Feb-2025 SandiaAI chat: New tool for creating efficiencies DOE/Sandia National Laboratories In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories became the first facility within the nuclear security enterprise to provide its employees with access to this powerful new tool with SandiaAI Chat, enabling them to ask sensitive unclassified questions. Funder DOE/US Department of Energy
5-Feb-2025 From innovation to industry: ORNL Researchers complete Energy I-Corps program DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Nick Gregorich and Syed Islam, ORNL R&D staff, recently completed Cohort 19 of the Energy I-Corps program, an initiative of DOE’s Office of Technology Transitions, or OTT, that provides teams of researchers and industry mentors with an immersive two-month training to develop commercialization pathways for laboratory-developed technologies.
3-Feb-2025 Employee-led giving at ORNL nets over $1.1M for area nonprofits, disaster relief in 2024 DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL staff and its managing contractor, UT-Battelle, donated $1,104,866 in the 2024 ORNL Gives campaign, an annual employee-led effort to address needs throughout East Tennessee.
28-Jan-2025 Argonne releases Aurora exascale supercomputer to researchers, enabling accelerated science DOE/Argonne National Laboratory With its Aurora exascale supercomputer, Argonne National Laboratory is providing researchers with a powerful tool to accelerate discoveries across many fields, including biology, chemistry and AI for science.
23-Jan-2025 Mining the dark sky with the Aurora exascale supercomputer DOE/Argonne National Laboratory As part of the Aurora Early Science Program, an Argonne team is using the lab’s new Aurora exascale supercomputer and AI tools to perform simulations of the universe that aim to shed light on dark matter and dark energy.
