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14-Sep-2022
New US reports illuminate clean energy supply chain challenges and opportunities
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne researchers recently contributed to new Department of Energy reports aimed at securing America’s clean energy supply chain and minimizing potential disruptions.
14-Sep-2022
A new way to predict droughts
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Researchers have created a new metric that uses temperature instead of precipitation deficits to predict and identify droughts, especially flash droughts.
- Journal
- Scientific Reports
13-Sep-2022
Researchers look for concrete answers to decades-old art mystery
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
X-rays from Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source could help illuminate the contents of artist Wolf Vostell’s Concrete Book. The answer may change the way this artist’s work is studied and presented.
12-Sep-2022
Peering deep into a flame
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, Yale University and Penn State University refined and used an X-ray technique to measure temperatures in an extremely hot, soot-laden flame produced by combustion.
9-Sep-2022
SUPER program expands undergraduate research support
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
The Summer Undergraduate Program for Exceptional Researchers (SUPER), run by the U.S. ATLAS collaboration, wrapped up a successful season with a new focus to broaden the program’s impact. The new initiative paired students from underrepresented minorities and minority serving institutions (MSIs) across the nation with mentors and projects at U.S. ATLAS member institutions.
7-Sep-2022
Upgraded laser facility paves the way for next-generation particle accelerators
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab researchers have completed a major expansion of one of the world’s most powerful laser systems, creating new opportunities in accelerator research. The expansion created a second beamline for the petawatt laser at the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA) Center, enabling the development of next-generation particle accelerators for applications in science, medicine, security, and industry.
7-Sep-2022
Advanced microscope techniques could pave way for improved computer memories
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Highly-resolved microscopy technique helps show temperature-dependent phase transitions at tiny and fast scales.
- Journal
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
7-Sep-2022
Coal-dependent Kentucky considers nuclear with help of GAIN and an NCSU student
DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
Last year, Bill Gates was speaking at the Nuclear Energy Assembly’s virtual conference about his company’s plans to build an advanced reactor in Wyoming. Julian Colvin, a 22-year-old nuclear engineering student at North Carolina State University, was listening and posted a question in the chat: “I’m Julian. I go to NC State, and I wonder what a state like Kentucky could do to attract advanced nuclear projects?” Another attendee, Christine King, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) responded in the chat, asking Colvin to contact GAIN, which is based at Idaho National Laboratory.
31-Aug-2022
Helium’s chilling journey to cool a particle accelerator
DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
En route to record-breaking X-rays, SLAC’s Cryogenic team built a helium-refrigeration plant that lowers the LCLS-II accelerator to superconducting temperatures.