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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 18-Jun-2026 02:16 ET (18-Jun-2026 06:16 GMT/UTC)

Researchers use Summit to track down nuclear fission’s elusive scission neutron

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers from the University of Washington, Seattle, or UW, and Los Alamos National Laboratory used the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to answer one of fission’s biggest questions: What exactly happens during the nucleus’s “neck rupture” as it splits in two?

Journal: Physical Review Letters

Bridging the gap between physics and computing

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab’s Experimental Physics Software and Computing Infrastructure (EPSCI) group develops centralized computing software that can be shared by any of the lab’s experimental halls and used for future projects.

Argonne partners with Constellation to create tool ensuring equal access to all clean energy initiatives

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Groundbreaking agreement between Argonne and Constellation helps ensure equitable clean-energy decisions.

By turning our waste into wealth, Argonne researchers are recirculating Earth’s precious resources and keeping pollutants out of the environment

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at Argonne are working toward a circular economy by developing technologies to turn waste into valuable commodities.

What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Arctic is warming faster than any other area of the planet.

How environmental change affects the landscape, weather patterns and infrastructure for communities — not just here but across the world — is of keen interest to scientists studying climate change.

Researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been crisscrossing the Alaskan tundra for the past 12 years, collecting data as part of the Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments in the Arctic project, or NGEE Arctic. They’re tracking rapid changes across the treeless tundra landscape as the climate warms.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

Soils from six continents add up to largest database of viruses beneath our feet

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Scientists have plumbed the depths of nearly 3,000 soil samples from around the globe to put together the heftiest atlas of soil viruses ever created. But what are all those viruses doing in the soil? More than 97 percent are considered “viral dark matter” that have no known function, no connection to a specific host.

Journal: Nature Microbiology
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

Sending clear signals: Cooke bridges academia, industry in ORNL-Tennessee Tech collaboration

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher Corey Cooke reveals hidden communications with new methods for teasing apart digital signals from noise. But his influence extends beyond mathematical models and machine learning to shaping new engineers. He coordinates a partnership between ORNL and Tennessee Technological University which helps ORNL staff pursue graduate degrees in electrical and computer engineering and opens professional opportunities for Tennessee Tech Graduates.

A new view of the in-between years of our universe

DOE/US Department of Energy

Just like we use photos to reflect on memories of our past, astrophysicists want to use images of far-off galaxies to understand what the universe was like in its juvenile years. But current imaging technology can only reach so far back in history -- 90 to 95 percent of the volume of our 14-billion-year-old universe remains unseen.

Increasing the efficiency of hydropower plants with utility-scale batteries

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

Utility-scale batteries can revolutionize how we harness renewable power. Coupled with wind and solar, these batteries could increase the reliability of green energy by storing excess energy during times of high generation and low demand. Then, utilities can tap the stored energy when demand increases.

Tenth DOE CyberForce Competition® challenges college students to use cybersecurity skills to harness and defend their wind energy system

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s CyberForce® Program is hosting the 10th edition of its annual competition, aimed at fostering cybersecurity talent.

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