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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 17-Aug-2025 08:11 ET (17-Aug-2025 12:11 GMT/UTC)

New nanoscale technique unlocks quantum material secrets

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using a novel surface-sensitive spectroscopy method, scientists explored atomic vibrations in crystalline material surfaces near interfaces. The findings illuminate quantum behaviors that play important roles computing and sensing technologies.

Journal: Science Advances

Mini flow battery speeds energy storage research

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mini flow cell battery provides the first step toward an AI-driven, robotic energy storage discovery laboratory.

Journal: Journal of The Electrochemical Society
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Mini flow battery speeds energy storage research

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Mini flow cell battery provides the first step toward an AI-driven, robotic energy storage discovery laboratory.

Journal: Journal of The Electrochemical Society
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Beyond DNA: How environments influence biology to make things happen

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Meeting Announcement

This week at AAAS, PNNL scientists and colleagues discuss phenomics, exposomics, and the factors that influence DNA instructions to bring about the world around us.

Funder: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Meeting: 2025 AAAS Annual Meeting

From photons to protons: Argonne team makes breakthrough in high-energy particle detection

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at Argonne have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate particle detectors, and they have found the optimal nanowire size for high detection efficiency.

Journal: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research

Innovative target design leads to surprising discovery in laser-plasma acceleration

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

SLAC researchers studying laser-driven proton acceleration introduced a self-replenishing water sheet target to address the inefficiency of replacing targets after each laser pulse. The new target had an unanticipated side effect, resulting in a naturally focused, more tightly aligned proton beam.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, U.S. National Science Foundation

DOE’s Office of Science is now Accepting Applications for Office of Science Graduate Student Research Awards

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science is pleased to announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2025 solicitation 1 cycle. Applications are due on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. ET.

Berkeley Lab helps explore mysteries of Asteroid Bennu

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source and Molecular Foundry provided powerful tools to study asteroid samples returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Researchers found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of years ago.

Journal: Nature

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