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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 9-Jul-2025 05:10 ET (9-Jul-2025 09:10 GMT/UTC)

30-Jun-2025

Licensed ORNL technology makes magnets with fewer critical minerals

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

United Rare Earths has licensed two innovative technologies from Oak Ridge National Laboratory aimed at reducing dependence on critical rare earth elements. These technologies support the creation of high-performance magnets engineered to use significantly less rare earth content.

30-Jun-2025

Groundbreaking cancer therapy clinical trial with US Department of Energy’s accelerator-produced actinium-225 set to begin this summer

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Isotope Program, within the Office of Science, will supply a U.S. based company with accelerator produced actinium-225 (Ac-225) in support of an upcoming U.S. clinical trial for cancer therapy for the first time. This is a significant milestone in the advancement of radiopharmaceutical development and cancer therapy because it opens a potential new pipeline for this lifesaving isotope.

23-Jun-2025

Quantum bootcamp

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories and Central New Mexico Community College are partnering to create a training program for quantum technicians.

17-Jun-2025

Nanofibers yield stronger, tougher carbon fiber composites

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an innovative new technique using carbon nanofibers to enhance binding in carbon fiber and other fiber-reinforced polymer composites – an advance likely to improve structural materials for automobiles, airplanes and other applications that require lightweight and strong materials.

Journal: Advanced Functional Materials

16-Jun-2025

B61-13 first production unit completed ahead of schedule

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

Sandia National Laboratories and the nuclear security enterprise delivered the first unit of the B61-13 gravity bomb about a year ahead of schedule.

12-Jun-2025

Sandia to help propel US semiconductor manufacturing

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Business Announcement

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has joined a new partnership aimed at helping the United States regain its leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.

9-Jun-2025

Center for Bioenergy Innovation taps Cregger, Eckert as chief science officers

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

The Center for Bioenergy Innovation, or CBI, at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has promoted Melissa Cregger and Carrie Eckert to serve as chief science officers, advancing the center’s mission of innovations for new domestic biofuels, chemicals and materials.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

3-Jun-2025

Using AI to construct on the level

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Researchers at ORNL have developed a tool that gives builders a quick way to measure, correct and certify level foundations. FLAT, or the Flat and Level Analysis Tool, examines a 360-degree laser scan of a construction site using ORNL-developed segmentation algorithms and machine learning to locate uneven areas on a concrete slab.