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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 20-May-2026 14:16 ET (20-May-2026 18:16 GMT/UTC)

CRuSE-ing toward community carsharing in Hood River, Oregon

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Access to transportation will be made easier in a semi-rural Oregon town through an electric vehicle carsharing program. PNNL is lending analytics expertise that will inform programs in other rural and semi-rural areas.

DOE announces $6.4 million for research on international fusion energy facilities

DOE/US Department of Energy

Today, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $6.4 million in funding for US scientists to carry out seven research projects at two major fusion energy facilities located in Germany and Japan.

Clean water for all

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

New research findings aid in the design of more efficient water purification technologies.

Laser-focused on supercooled water

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL's infrared pulsed heating technique reveals supercooled water's weird behavior; opens door to other fluid studies at new Energy Sciences Center.

Why arctic soil can go slip-sliding away

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Slow-moving arctic soils form patterns that, from a distance, resemble those found in common fluids such as drips in paint and birthday cake icing.

DOE announces $1 million in funding for privacy-preserving artificial intelligence research

DOE/US Department of Energy

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $1 million for collaborations in privacy-preserving artificial intelligence research. The aim of this funding is to bring together researchers from the DOE National Laboratories and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to jointly develop new flagship datasets and privacy-preserving methods and algorithms to improve healthcare.

CIGAR 'smokes out' attacks on solar electrical power equipment

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

While the need for security in the power grid is clear, cybersecurity has typically been "bolted on" after the fact rather than designed in from the outset. Enter the Cybersecurity via Inverter-Grid Automatic Reconfiguration (CIGAR) project, designed to provide security protections for emerging power systems.

Argonne demonstrates benefits of restoring native vegetation at solar facilities

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Modeling different land use types, Argonne researchers demonstrate that the growth of native grasslands on large solar utility sites can help restore biodiversity, maintain ecosystem services and aid agriculture.

SLAC's Panofsky fellows talk about what makes their research so exciting

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Among the many scientists who push the frontiers of knowledge at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the Panofsky fellows stand out.

Single gene boosts climate resilience, yield and carbon capture in crops

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered a single gene that simultaneously boosts plant growth and tolerance for stresses such as drought and salt, all while tackling the root cause of climate change by enabling plants to pull more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.