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PNNL wins R&D 100 awards

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL innovations won five awards in the competition results announced this week, with one of the laboratory's four awarded inventions garnering two awards. PNNL has received a total of 121 since the laboratory began submitting entries in 1969.

Berkeley Lab mobilizes to predict how Caldor fire may lead to floods and land movement

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

After the Caldor Fire erupted in August 2021, scientists from Berkeley Lab launched a research project to study how the fire would affect the mountain ecosystem, including factors such as streamflow, groundwater levels, water quality, and possible soil erosion leading to floods and debris flow. They mobilized to burn areas to collect samples of water, sediment, and ash.

Innovative models predict effects of climate change on nor’easters

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers use Argonne-developed high-resolution models to predict the effect of future climate change on the extratropical storms — or nor’easters — that bear down on the Northeast during the winter. Results could provide guidance for mitigation.

CodeGirls experience the rich potential of coding and computing science at Argonne

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

As part of ongoing efforts by Argonne to create pathways for the next generation of STEM leaders, CodeGirls @ Argonne summer camp offers middle school girls the opportunity to see the computing technology and careers available at national laboratories.

Argonne-led research team highlighted in special issue on quantum systems

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

A team led by Argonne and UChicago have published an article in Nature Reviews Materials that lays out a blueprint for solid-state spin defects in materials for use in qubits.

Journal: Nature Reviews Materials

$1.2 million award helps Argonne steer manufacturers toward supercomputing

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory received nearly $1.2 million in funding from the Department of Energy to support four manufacturing and materials development projects that have the potential to improve energy efficiency.

Scott chambers searches for new materials, one atomic layer at a time

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Scott Chambers creates layered structures of thin metal oxide films and studies their properties, creating materials not found in nature. He will soon move his instrumentation and research to the new Energy Sciences Center.

First-person science: Jacqueline Chen on modeling combustion engines

DOE/US Department of Energy

Jacqueline Chen harnesses some of the nation’s most powerful computers to model the complex interactions in combustion engines. Her research illustrates how much our computing power and understanding of these processes has evolved over decades of work.

The Advanced Quantum Testbed propels quantum information technologies and talent

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Since its foundation, the collaborative research culture of AQT at Berkeley Lab has incorporated scientists from different backgrounds and fields to advance quantum computing. David I. Santiago, AQT's technical lead, shared his perspectives about this fast-growing field and his journey growing up and studying physics in Puerto Rico.

Quick detection of uranium isotopes helps safeguard nuclear materials

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Analytical chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a rapid way to measure isotopic ratios of uranium and plutonium collected on environmental swipes, which could help International Atomic Energy Agency analysts detect the presence of undeclared nuclear activities or material.

Journal: Analytical Chemistry
Funder: US Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration