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14-Oct-2021
Greening the gray: Fighting floods with restoration versus riprap
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Incorporating green infrastructure into flood protection plans alongside gray infrastructure can shield communities, reduce maintenance, and provide additional social and environmental benefits.
14-Oct-2021
Why skyrmions could have a lot in common with glass and high-temperature superconductors
DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Spawned by the spins of electrons in magnetic materials, these tiny whirlpools behave like independent particles and could be the future of computing. Experiments with SLAC’s X-ray laser are revealing their secrets.
- Journal
- Scientific Reports
14-Oct-2021
Rule-following molecules provide the first direct confirmation of a half-century-old theory
DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
More than half a century after the Woodward-Hoffmann rules, an important set of organic chemistry rules, were formulated, SLAC scientists imaged a reaction and observed how a molecule transforms as predicted by these rules, directly confirming the theory for the first time.
- Journal
- Science
12-Oct-2021
Argonne invites local Hispanic and Latino students to imagine future careers in science
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne hosted an Education Outreach Day to reach middle school students from predominantly Hispanic and Latino neighborhoods and taught them about science-related careers. The goal was to strengthen and diversify the nation’s laboratories and research institutions with greater representation.
12-Oct-2021
Research team unlocks secret path to a quantum future
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Researchers from the Lab’s Center for Novel Pathways to Quantum Coherence in Materials are developing new pathways to create and protect quantum coherence. Doing so will enable exquisitely sensitive measurement and information processing devices that function at ambient or even extreme conditions.
- Journal
- Nature
12-Oct-2021
Jozef Dudek: Then and now / 2011 Early Career Award winner
DOE/US Department of Energy
College of William and Mary associate professor and Jefferson Lab staff scientist Jozef Dudek focused on a previously unexplored, numerical approach to study unstable hadrons and pioneered theoretical techniques to find answers.
12-Oct-2021
Sandia researcher awarded Early-Career Research Program grant
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia researcher Drew Kouri has attracted interest from the broad computing community for his ability to mitigate uncertainty in both supercomputer programs and data, optimizing each to reach the best solutions.
11-Oct-2021
Controlling thin films with atomic “spray painting”
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Creating films with atomic precision allows researchers moving to the Energy Sciences Center to identify small, but important changes in the materials.
11-Oct-2021
EIC User Profile: Jennifer Rittenhouse West
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
This story, profiling theoretical physicist Jennifer Rittenhouse West, is a pilot project conceived by the Software Working Group of the EIC User Group to become part of a series of profiles of future users of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). The EIC is a next-generation nuclear physics research facility being built at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory in partnership with DOE’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and collaborators around the world.