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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 5-Jun-2026 01:15 ET (5-Jun-2026 05:15 GMT/UTC)

DOE awards a SLAC-led research team $12 million to help improve response time to dangerous pathogens

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Researchers with the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and other institutions have been awarded $12 million in funding to help accelerate society’s response to emerging pathogens by improving X-ray science technology and processes.

With automated treatment, affordable water from nontraditional sources can flow to underserved communities

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are developing advanced automation techniques for desalination and water treatment plants, enabling them to save while providing affordable drinking water to small, parched communities without high-quality water supplies.

Alyssa Kody is helping develop a low-carbon power grid

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

The Fellow discusses her efforts to improve power systems and how Argonne has supported her career development.

With new student program, Argonne offers a Bridge Into Internships

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

New student program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory helps high school students from underserved communities get ready for STEM internships.

Air leak detection system visualizes building drafts with the click of a camera

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a new detection system that allows home energy auditors to see air leaking from a building in real time with the help of a camera. It’s an advancement that could provide more accurate readings far more quickly than current diagnostic tools allow.

Journal: Building and Environment

The future of grid energy storage starts today

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PNNL’s Grid Storage Launchpad delivers tomorrow’s energy storage solutions today

Argonne’s Chain Reaction Innovations program supports breakthrough technologies

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Startups embedded in Argonne’s world-class laboratory work with scientists to create market-ready businesses that are the future of clean energy technology.

Cabling for LHC upgrade wraps up

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Experts at Berkeley Lab finished winding more than 2000 kilometers of superconducting wire into cables for new magnets that will help upgrade the Large Hadron Collider and the search for new physics.

‘Doubly magic’ rare isotope oxygen-28 can’t overcome its neutron-rich instability

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Rare isotope oxygen-28 has been determined to be "barely unbound" by experiments led by researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and by computer simulations conducted at ORNL. The findings from this first-ever observation of 28O answer a longstanding question in nuclear physics: can you get bound isotopes in a very neutron-rich region of the nuclear chart, where instability and radioactivity are the norm?

Journal: Nature

Tomas Polakovic develops the next generation of superconducting particle detectors

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

The Maria Goeppert Mayer Fellow describes his research on superconducting nanowires and how Argonne has supported his career development.

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