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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 7-Jun-2026 06:16 ET (7-Jun-2026 10:16 GMT/UTC)

SLAC expands and centralizes computing infrastructure to prepare for data challenges of the future

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

A computing facility at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is doubling in size, preparing the lab for new scientific endeavors that promise to revolutionize our understanding of the world from atomic to cosmic scales but also require handling unprecedented data streams.

Funder: Office of Science

Greener air-conditioning for a warmer world

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Air-conditioning needs an energy overhaul—PNNL research provides a roadmap to get there using energy efficient adsorption cooling.

Journal: Accounts of Chemical Research

Adsorbent material filters toxic chromium, arsenic from water supplies

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are tackling a global water challenge with a unique material designed to target not one, but two toxic, heavy metal pollutants for simultaneous removal.

New sensing platform deployed at controlled burn site, could help prevent forest fires

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Sage, a new sensing and computing platform based on Argonne’s Waggle technology, has been deployed at a controlled burn site in Kansas.

Haim Waisman: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner

DOE/US Department of Energy

Haim Waisman develops computational models of the mechanics of materials. He focuses on fracture phenomena, such as ice breaking due to climate warming, infrastructure aging and deteriorating, energy extraction from rocks, and fractures in biomaterials such as bones.

Sandia applied mathematician wins DOE Early Career Research Award

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Examination of very fine real-world data can improve the fidelity by which complex computer simulations are guided, says Sandia National Laboratories applied mathematician Pete Bosler. Bosler investigates multiscale simulations that, integrated, could combine individual raindrops, thunderstorms and the entire global atmosphere, guided by data currently thought too fine to be used, that is, too small to be seen on a data grid, or in other words, subgrid.

Brookhaven Lab's visiting faculty program fosters new nano center at SUNY – Buffalo State

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

In a successful pilot extension of the Visiting Faculty Program, Saquib Ahmed leveraged the program’s resources to build out a nanoscience center at his home institution.

Enriching science education with thin films

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Tiffany Kaspar’s work has advanced the discovery and understanding of oxide materials, helping develop electronics, quantum computing, and energy production. She strives to communicate her science to the public.

Radar gets a major makeover

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working to replace legacy analog radars commonly used by the military with a new, digital, software-defined system called Multi-Mission Radio Frequency Architecture.

Aluminum alloy manufacturing now 50% more energy efficient

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A new extrusion process eliminates pre-heating to provide significant energy savings during production of extruded aluminum alloys.

Journal: Materials & Design