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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 17-May-2026 23:15 ET (18-May-2026 03:15 GMT/UTC)

Graduate fellow explores artificial intelligence, nuclear nonproliferation

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

National Nuclear Security Administration Graduate Fellow Marc Wonders has spent the past year working with researchers exploring artificial intelligence in the national security mission space.

Experimental Impact Mechanics Lab at Sandia bars none

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia Labs Experimental Impact Mechanics Lab packs a world-class punch in 200-plus square feet of weights, rods, cables, bars, heaters, compressors and high-speed cameras.

Argonne researchers using artificial intelligence to shape the future of science

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Artificial intelligence is being called "the next generation of the way we do science." At Argonne, researchers are leveraging the lab's state-of-the-art-facilities and unparalleled expertise to shape the very future of science.

Modernizing hydropower with digital twins

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The Digital Twins for Hydropower framework will help the industry to affordably modernize its aging hydropower fleet.

California and Massachusetts schools win DOE's 31st National Science Bowl®

DOE/US Department of Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that the student team from North Hollywood Senior High School in North Hollywood, California won the 2021 DOE National Science Bowl® (NSB). In the middle school competition, students from Jonas Clarke Middle School in Lexington, Massachusetts took home first place earlier this month.

Champions in science: Profile of Seth Johnson, National Science Bowl competitor

DOE/US Department of Energy

Supercomputer programmer Seth Johnson might be the ultimate insider at the National Science Bowl® competitions. He competed on his high school NSB team and now volunteers at the regional and national events.

Argonaut project launches design effort for super-cold robotics

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

A new robotics project called Argonaut at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will share that same name and spirit of adventure. Argonaut's mission will be to monitor conditions within ultracold particle detectors by voyaging into a sea of liquid argon kept at minus-193 degrees Celsius -- as cold as some of the moons of Saturn and Jupiter.

ICARUS gets ready to fly

DOE/Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

The ICARUS detector, part of Fermilab's Short-Baseline Neutrino Program, will officially start its hunt for elusive sterile neutrinos this fall. The international collaboration led by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia successfully brought the detector online and is now collecting test data and making final improvements.

Rare earth supply disruptions have long-range impacts, computer model shows

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Many devices rely on rare earth elements. Disruptions to supplies have consequences. Argonne analyzed potential disruptions with a computer model called Global Critical Materials to forecast rare earth market dynamics.

Physicists crack the code to signature superconductor kink using supercomputing

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team performed simulations on the Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and found that electrons in cuprates interact with phonons much more strongly than was previously thought, leading to experimentally observed "kinks," or sudden changes, in the relationship between an electron's energy and the momentum it carries.