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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 25-Apr-2025 06:08 ET (25-Apr-2025 10:08 GMT/UTC)

Next top model: Competition-based AI study aims to lower data center costs

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Data scientists and developers at Jefferson Lab are exploring some of the latest artificial intelligence techniques to help make high-performance computers more reliable and less costly to run. The study deploys machine learning models that are trained to monitor and predict the behavior of a scientific computing cluster. The goal is to help system administrators quickly identify and respond to troublesome computing jobs or hardware behavior, reducing downtime for scientists processing data from their experiments.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Supercomputing illuminates detailed nuclear structure

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers have developed a new technique that predicts nuclear properties in record detail. The study revealed how the structure of a nucleus relates to the force that holds it together. This understanding could advance efforts in quantum physics and across a variety of sectors, from to energy production to national security.

Journal: Physical Review X
Funder: US Department of Energy Office of Science (Office of Nuclear Physics and Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research)

New photon-avalanching nanoparticles could enable next-generation optical computers

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have developed a new optical computing material from photon avalanching nanoparticles.

Journal: Nature Photonics

Solving the case of the missing platinum

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

SSRL scientists have figured out how platinum electrodes dissolve, potentially paving the way for renewable energy improvements.

Journal: Nature Materials

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

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

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

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

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