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Past winners include Fortune 500 companies, Department of Energy national laboratories, academic institutions and smaller companies.

To mitigate the risks of living in extreme heat, scientists have developed policy recommendations and free toolkits in collaboration with city, state, and federal agencies and nonprofits to help disadvantaged communities adapt and thrive in a warming climate.

This June, Argonne launched the first Data Science Institute for High School Teachers, helping Chicago teachers learn about and practice data science, which they will apply in their own schools.

Researchers at the Center for High Precision Patterning Science (CHiPPS) in Berkeley, California, could help chip manufacturers make smaller, more powerful microchips and mitigate supply chain disruptions by helping the U.S. design and manufacture the world’s most advanced chips domestically. In a new Q&A, microelectronics expert and CHiPPS Director Ricardo Ruiz shares his perspective on keeping pace with Moore’s Law in the decades to come through a revolutionary technique called extreme ultraviolet lithography.

Integrating nuclear power into broader energy systems, including renewable energy sources and heat-intensive industries, could improve flexibility and unlock revenue streams for nuclear power producers.

The Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) at Berkeley Lab celebrated the first five years of operations and its renewal with a two-day hybrid summit in May 2023, bringing together staff, alums, testbed users, and colleagues. The summit was a unique opportunity to come together, share the latest experimental breakthroughs and lessons learned, and jointly plan the path forward for AQT.

Featured in the1995 James Bond film, “GoldenEye," the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico was the largest radio telescope in the world until December 1, 2020, when its cable wires slipped and caused the 1.8-million-pound platform to collapse onto the dish. Neutron imaging on some of the failed cable sockets was performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to help determine the cause of the cable/socket assembly failures.