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21-Sep-2022
Powered by artificial intelligence, Argonne technology eyes bird activity at solar facilities
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Near-real-time data on avian-solar interactions will help the energy industry understand risks and opportunities for wildlife at solar energy plants.
20-Sep-2022
Breakthrough software platform supports grid services, empowers utilities and consumers
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Packetized Energy and Argonne partnered to advance a software platform that can aggregate millions of power devices, like solar panels and batteries, and uses them to deliver a wide range of grid services, including reducing peak loads, supporting grid stability, responding to extreme blackout events.
19-Sep-2022
African school of physics brings new opportunities
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
The 7th African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications (ASP) will be held in-person at Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha, South Africa, from November 28 to December 9, 2022. Teams of leading physicists from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories and universities and other institutions across the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Africa will introduce more than 70 African graduate students to physics theories, experiments, and technologies.
- Funder
- Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, South African National Research Foundation, South African Institute of Physics, National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Italy
19-Sep-2022
Send in the drones: INL unmanned aerial program offers independent testing and prototyping
DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Ever since the Wright brothers innovated in the back of their bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, aviation has been, at heart, a nuts-and-bolts endeavor. For all the sophisticated equipment Idaho National Laboratory’s Unmanned Aerial Systems team has at its disposal for testing high-tech cameras, radios and sensors, there is still a lot of gearhead ingenuity involved.
19-Sep-2022
JPMorgan Chase is newest partner in Q-NEXT quantum research collaboration
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
JPMorgan Chase, one of the most established financial institutions in the world and the largest bank in the United States, has become a member of the Q-NEXT quantum research center.
16-Sep-2022
Lab experiments support COVID-19 bradykinin storm theory
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A new paper published in Nature Communications adds further evidence to the bradykinin storm theory of COVID-19’s viral pathogenesis — a theory that was posited two years ago by a team of researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
- Journal
- Nature Communications
15-Sep-2022
Cracking the secrets to earthquake safety, one shake simulation at a time
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A new experimental facility that replicates realistic earthquakes in the laboratory, paired with the world’s fastest supercomputers, will help scientists and engineers design and retrofit shake-resilient buildings and infrastructure across the U.S.
15-Sep-2022
Researchers at SLAC use purified liquid xenon to search for mysterious dark matter particles
DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
An enormous vat of pure liquid xenon will help scientists at SLAC and around the globe learn more about the universe.
15-Sep-2022
Quantum chemistry finds a new path on quantum devices
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
A team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have devised a new quantum algorithm to compute the lowest energies of molecules at specific configurations during chemical reactions, including when their chemical bonds are broken.
- Journal
- Physical Review Research