Feature Stories
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 10-Jul-2025 13:11 ET (10-Jul-2025 17:11 GMT/UTC)
20-Aug-2024
Argonne and the University of Münster join forces to advance essential battery materials and technology
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne and the University of Münster agreed to collaborate on advanced battery materials, building on past lithium battery research. This collaboration aims to enhance battery knowledge and address challenges in energy density, cost and lifespan.
19-Aug-2024
An electric grid that thinks ahead
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Researchers are planning for an electric grid that deploys machine learning to think ahead, plan for the worst, anticipate demand, and meet consumer needs safely and securely.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
16-Aug-2024
Breaking barriers in scientific discovery
DOE/US Department of Energy
A billion-billion floating point operations per second–that’s the power of exascale. The first exascale computer in the world, Frontier, resides at the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. The DOE’s Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research program has worked for decades to build supercomputers that break barriers in scientific discovery.
15-Aug-2024
Green energy conversations: Leaders pioneering Chicagoland sustainability efforts share their vision with Energy Department under secretary
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne’s Office of Community Engagement hosted Geri Richmond, the Department of Energy’s under secretary for science and innovation, at three sites on Chicago’s South Side to showcase green energy initiatives featuring Argonne’s involvement.
15-Aug-2024
The more you neutrino…
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
As a summer science writing intern in the Media and Communications Office at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, I learned about neutrinos while writing about Mary Bishai, an award-winning neutrino scientist. I attended neutrino lectures by Brookhaven physicists Elizabeth Worcester and Jay Hyun Jo, and I toured a laboratory where “cold microelectronics” designed to detect elusive signals of neutrinos get dipped in liquid nitrogen to ensure they are up to their chilly assignment.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
15-Aug-2024
Steadying the hands of time
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories is working with Japanese tech company Nichia Corporation to build the world’s most accurate compact atomic clock.
14-Aug-2024
Making the atomic universe visible
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
At Penn State and as a member of the Q-NEXT quantum research center, Nitin Samarth investigates atom-scale materials that could serve as the foundation for future quantum technologies.
13-Aug-2024
No power, no operator, no problem: Argonne test facility simulates nuclear reactors to explore next-generation nuclear safety systems
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne’s Natural Convection Shutdown Heat Removal Test Facility enables large-scale experimental testing of nuclear reactors. The facility explores passive safety systems, which can cool a reactor without any human intervention or power.
12-Aug-2024
Laura Berzak Hopkins joins PPPL as new associate laboratory director for strategy and partnerships and deputy chief research officer
DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics LaboratorySeasoned national laboratory scientist and leader Laura Berzak Hopkins joins PPPL as its new associate laboratory director for strategy and partnerships and deputy chief research officer. She previously served as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) associate program director for integrated weapon science, as well as Livermore’s deputy for assessment science to the DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of Experimental Sciences and Livermore’s funding manager for the weapon survivability program.