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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 1-May-2025 11:08 ET (1-May-2025 15:08 GMT/UTC)

Ensuring a bright future for diamond electronics and sensors

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

To expand the potential use of diamond in semiconductor and quantum technologies, researchers are developing improved processes for growing the material at lower temperatures that won’t damage the silicon in computer chips. These advances include insights into creating protective hydrogen layers on quantum diamonds without damaging crucial properties like nitrogen-vacancy centers.

Journal: Diamond and Related Materials
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation, DOE/US Department of Energy, Australian Research Council

Argonne to help drive AI revolution in astronomy with new institute led by Northwestern University

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A group of institutions, including Argonne National Laboratory, received a $20 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation and Simons Foundation to establish an AI and astronomy institute called the NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky (SkAI).

American Physical Society recognizes ORNL’s historic Graphite Reactor

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

The American Physical Society has recognized the Graphite Reactor, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as an APS historic site. APS President Young-Kee Kim presented a plaque commemorating the recognition on Monday, Nov. 4, the 81st anniversary of the reactor’s first achieving criticality in 1943.

Frontier users’ Exascale Climate Emulator nominated for Gordon Bell Climate Prize

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, or KAUST, Saudi Arabia, has been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. The team developed an exascale climate emulator with radically enhanced resolution but without the computational expense and data storage requirements of state-of-the-art climate models.

Funder: Advanced Scientific Computing Research

DOE announces funding for climate resilience centers

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the Climate Resilience Centers (CRCs). These new centers will be dedicated to rapidly developing new science and talent to address the nation’s most pressing climate resilience challenges.

Exploring the cost and feasibility of battery-electric ships

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Retrofitting a portion of the US shipping fleet from internal combustion engines to battery-electric systems could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and be largely cost effective by 2035, according to a new study from Berkeley Lab researchers.

Journal: Nature Energy

Scientists address risks to supply chain in a connected world

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Meeting Announcement

Protecting critical systems such as the electrical grid and water treatment plants from cyber-based risks to the supply chain is the focus of a new conference at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Applications now open for Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a fellowship open to all U.S. students pursuing doctoral degrees in fields that use high-performance computing to solve complex science and engineering problems.

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