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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 25-Apr-2025 11:08 ET (25-Apr-2025 15:08 GMT/UTC)

Fresh, direct evidence for tiny drops of quark-gluon plasma

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that collisions of even very small nuclei with large ones might create tiny specks of a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Scientists believe such a substance of free quarks and gluons, the building blocks of protons and neutrons, permeated the universe a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

State-of-the-art fusion simulation leads three scientists to the 2024 Kaul Foundation Prize

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

PPPL scientists Choongseok (CS) Chang, Seung-Hoe Ku and Robert Hager are winners of the 2024 Kaul Foundation Prize for pioneering simulations that suggest excess heat from escaping plasma particles is less likely to damage the inside of a fusion vessel than once thought.

Floating solar panels could support US energy goals

DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Federal reservoirs could help meet the country’s solar energy needs, according to a new study published in Solar Energy. For the study, Evan Rosenlieb and Marie Rivers, geospatial scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), as well as Aaron Levine, a senior legal and regulatory analyst at NREL, quantified for the first time exactly how much energy could be generated from floating solar panel projects installed on federally owned or regulated reservoirs. (Developers can find specific details for each reservoir on the website AquaPV.)

Journal: Solar Energy

Geochemist Kevin Rosso appointed a Battelle Fellow

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Geochemist Kevin Rosso earns the highest scientific and leadership honor bestowed by PNNL.

ORNL partnership with EPB tests new method for protecting quantum networks

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory joined forces with EPB of Chattanooga and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to demonstrate the first transmission of an entangled quantum signal using multiple wavelength channels and automatic polarization stabilization over a commercial network with no downtime.

The successful trial of this innovation marks another step toward the eventual creation of a quantum internet that could prove to be more capable and secure than existing networks.

Journal: Optics Express
Funder: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, ORNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development

Unlocking the potential of lithium-sulfur batteries

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Argonne researchers have developed a new class of electrolyte additives for lithium-sulfur batteries, improving battery performance by suppressing the unwanted migration of polysulfide ions and reducing the uneven distribution and occurrence of chemical reactions within the system.

Journal: Joule

Aydin elevated to IEEE senior membership

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Emrullah Aydin, an R&D staff associate in the Vehicle Power Electronics Research group at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elevated to senior member status in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE.

Sujan elected National Academy of Inventors Fellow

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Vivek Sujan, a distinguished R&D scientist in the Applied Research for Mobility Systems group at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named a 2024 National Academy of Inventors, or NAI, Fellow.

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