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Employee-led giving at ORNL nets over $1.1M for area nonprofits, disaster relief in 2024
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryArgonne releases Aurora exascale supercomputer to researchers, enabling accelerated science
DOE/Argonne National LaboratoryMining the dark sky with the Aurora exascale supercomputer
DOE/Argonne National LaboratoryOrchestrating the nanoscale: exploring light and matter for quantum science
DOE/Argonne National LaboratorySandia’s economic impact soars to $5.2B in 2024
DOE/Sandia National LaboratoriesNext-level semiconductor testing available
DOE/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryResearchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new automated testing capability for semiconductor devices, which is newly available to researchers and industry partners in the Grid Research Integration and Deployment Center, or GRID-C.
Argonne team delivers a 100x speedup of genetic data analysis from the Million Veteran Program
DOE/Argonne National LaboratoryArtificial imagination
DOE/Brookhaven National LaboratoryKevin Yager, the Electronic Nanomaterials group leader at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), has articulated an overarching vision for the role of AI in scientific research. It’s called a science exocortex — “exo” meaning outside and “cortex” referencing the information processing layer of the human brain. Rather than simple chatbots and scientific assistants, the conceptualized exocortex will be an extension of a scientist’s brain. Researchers will interact with it through conversation, without the need for any invasive brain-computer interfaces.