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18-Jun-2024
Westhampton Beach student's seaweed fertilizer project 'SPARKs' success
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Jessica Curran, a senior at Westhampton Beach High School created a highly effective seaweed liquid fertilizer from red seaweed samples collected on local shorelines. She earned fourth prize in the plant science category at Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair 2024
17-Jun-2024
Lijuan Ruan: Then and Now / 2013 Early Career Award Winner
DOE/US Department of Energy
Lijuan Ruan is a senior physicist at Brookhaven National Lab who studies the strong force interactions in the quark-gluon plasma created at RHIC.
13-Jun-2024
Marthi receives IEEE senior member honor
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Phani Ratna Vanamali Marthi, an R&D associate in the Power Systems Resilience group at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elevated to the grade of senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
13-Jun-2024
Argonne training series gives students hands-on experience using AI for science
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, Argonne’s annual “Intro to AI-Driven Science on Supercomputers” training series is helping to grow a new generation of AI-ready researchers.
13-Jun-2024
Argonne and a Moroccan university sign agreement to advance green energy tech and computing
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne and University Mohammed VI Polytechnic signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a collaboration that will support energy storage, renewable energy, high-performance computing and clean water innovation.
12-Jun-2024
Newest LOVEwork unveiled in Newport News
DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
The Jefferson Lab LOVEwork is a testament to the lab’s commitment to partnering with other national labs, reducing its environmental impact by reusing scientific apparatus, and educating future scientists in the science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) disciplines. This is the lab’s first public art and STEAM education installation, and it was first unveiled on June 6 in preparation for Jefferson Lab’s 2024 Open House event. It is also the first and currently only LOVEwork in the commonwealth that embodies the new Virginia is for Science Lovers® theme.
12-Jun-2024
Building energy around changing climate
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed free data sets to estimate how much energy any building in the contiguous U.S. will use in 2100. These data sets provide planners a way to anticipate future energy needs as the climate changes.
12-Jun-2024
NASA’s Roman Mission gets cosmic ‘sneak peek’ from Argonne supercomputer
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
Researchers from DOE and NASA joined forces to use Argonne’s Theta supercomputer to produce 4 million simulated images that are being used to prepare for future observations from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
12-Jun-2024
Sandia boosts battery research
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are working to make large back-up batteries for homes or neighborhoods less expensive, hold more energy and be less prone to bursting into flame. One way to tackle all three challenges is by changing up the battery chemistry with the addition of sulfur, according to Sandia battery expert Melissa Meyerson.