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7-Jun-2022
Experts chip away at corrosion for the future of fusion
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Practical fusion energy is not just a dream at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Experts in fusion and material science are working together to develop solutions that will make a fusion pilot plant — and ultimately carbon-free, abundant fusion electricity — possible.
3-Jun-2022
ORNL, partners launch first experiments using new facility to make cosmic isotopes on Earth
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Two decades in the making, a new flagship facility for nuclear physics opened on May 2, and scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have a hand in 10 of its first 34 experiments. ORNL researchers and their partners at other national laboratories and universities launched the first experiment on May 11. The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, a DOE Office of Science user facility at Michigan State University, will produce more than 1,000 new rare isotopes.
- Funder
- US Department of Energy Office of Science
3-Jun-2022
Pushing the boundaries of Moore’s law: How can extreme UV light produce tiny microchips?
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Some analysts say that the end of Moore’s Law is near, but Patrick Naulleau, the director of Berkeley Lab’s Center for X-Ray Optics (CXRO), says that it could be decades before the modern chip runs out of room for improvement, thanks to advances in materials and instrumentation enabled by the CXRO.
3-Jun-2022
The future of flight: decarbonizing aviation
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne hosted a sustainable aviation fuels workshop, bringing together over 100 leaders in the U.S. aviation industry to discuss their mutual goals of achieving a greener future for commercial aviation.
1-Jun-2022
Scientists develop environmental justice lens to identify neighborhoods vulnerable to climate change
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A new capability developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to identify urban neighborhoods, down to the block and building level, that are most vulnerable to climate change could help ensure that mitigation and resilience programs reach the people who need them the most.
- Funder
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1-Jun-2022
Argonne helps prepare communities for dam-related emergencies
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne is working with local jurisdictions to develop dam-related emergency action plans through FEMA’s Collaborative Technical Assistance (CTA) program.
31-May-2022
Shark antibodies may have the teeth to stop COVID-19
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Tiny antibodies in sharks have dexterity and flexibility that human antibodies do not. They can bind tightly to the spike proteins of coronaviruses and neutralize the virus. This could help researchers develop new vaccines and therapies for COVID-19.
- Journal
- Nature Communications
24-May-2022
Public release of ORNL global population distribution data aids humanitarian support
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORNL’s suite of LandScan population distribution models is available online to the global public for the first time ever under a new open-source creative commons license.
24-May-2022
Quark Matter 2022: New results from RHIC and LHC—Plus plans for the future
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Theoretical and experimental physicists from around the world gathered last month at Quark Matter 2022 to discuss new developments in high energy heavy ion physics. Highlights included a series of presentations and discussions about the latest findings from heavy ion research facilities—notably the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Large Hadron Collider at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN)—as well as future research directions for the field.