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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 8-May-2025 01:09 ET (8-May-2025 05:09 GMT/UTC)

SLAC celebrates 50 years of Nobel-winning discovery in particle physics

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

In 1974, the independent discovery of the J/psi particle at SLAC and Brookhaven National Laboratory rocked the physics world, and entire textbooks had to be rewritten. Earlier this month, SLAC hosted a symposium to celebrate the milestone.

The Fantastic Four: Open Quantum Initiative undergraduate fellows at Argonne share their research experiences

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Four summer undergrad fellows conducting research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory talk about their work developing quantum technologies and how they’re excited to be a part of a burgeoning field.

University of Illinois Chicago students write the book on automating diamond membrane creation for quantum devices

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

During a summer at Argonne, UIC computer science and information science students develop a technique for automating a manually intensive stage in the creation of a qubit-host material.

Frontier supercomputer hits new highs in third year of exascale

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The HPE Cray EX supercomputing system reported new highs for problem-solving speeds this week, updated for the TOP500 announcement at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, or SC24, in Atlanta. The score earned Frontier the No. 2 spot on the November 2024 TOP500 list, which ranks the fastest supercomputers in the world.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Adjusting accelerators with help from machine learning

DOE/US Department of Energy

Banks of computer screens stacked two and three high line the walls. The screens are covered with numbers and graphs that are unintelligible to an untrained eye. But they tell a story to the operators staffing the particle accelerator control room. The numbers describe how the accelerator is speeding up tiny particles to smash into targets or other particles.

Much ado about vacuum

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Meet NSLS-II Vacuum Group Leader Robert Todd and learn about the crucial role high-tech vacuum systems play in maintaining ultra-bright X-ray light for cutting-edge scientific research.

Argonne scientist elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne scientist, Maria Chan, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for her contributions to energy research.

University of Central Florida’s a team with a dream secures gold at the DOE'C 10th Cyberforce Competition®

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

University of Central Florida’s A Team with A Dream wins the 2024 CyberForce Competition^®. The mission of the competition is to equip the next generation of cybersecurity professionals with hands-on experience defending critical infrastructure.

Argonne researchers highlight breakthroughs in supercomputing and AI at SC24

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory researchers to showcase leading-edge work in high performance computing, AI and more at SC24 international conference.

Power line test bed energizes technologies for increasing grid capacity

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

As population growth and extreme temperatures strain the United States power grid, utilities and equipment manufacturers are looking for ways to increase the amount of electricity the grid can carry. The Powerline Conductor Accelerated Testing Facility, or PCAT, located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is one of the only facilities in the country where companies can try out new transmission line technologies for long time periods in extremes of wind, weather, temperature and electrical load conditions.

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