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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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

What they did this summer: Perspectives from five Open Quantum Initiative undergraduate fellows

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

This summer, five undergraduates conducted Q-NEXT research as part of the Open Quantum Initiative Undergraduate Fellowship program. In this Q&A, they share their research experiences and aspirations.

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.

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