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Oak Ridge National Laboratory supercomputers support Nobel Prize–winning research

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

In October, a scientist whose research was supported by modeling and simulation efforts on supercomputers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021.

Journal: Science

SLAC researchers for a challenging future of X-ray science

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The ePix series of detectors is designed to keep pace with ever more demanding experiments at SLAC and elsewhere.

Closing In on Fusion

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team used the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to model plasma turbulence in a nuclear fusion device to capture energy loss in fusion plasmas. The team’s simulations will help inform the design of next-generation tokamaks like ITER with optimum confinement properties.

Journal: Physics of Plasmas

Security researchers discover abundant, cost-effective way to make new cancer medicine

DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

By bombarding a natural vanadium target with high-energy photons, INL researchers created a pure, low-cost form of Scandium-47 which can be used to treat prostate, lung, intestinal and pancreatic cancers, among others.

Journal: Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Neutralizing antibodies for emerging viruses

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a platform for discovering, designing and engineering novel antibody countermeasures for emerging viruses. This new process of screening for nanobodies that “neutralize” or disable the virus represents a faster, more effective approach to developing nanobody therapies that prevent or treat viral infection.

Meet Ilke Arslan, the Director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials

DOE/US Department of Energy

Ilke Arslan is the director of the Center for Nanoscale Materials user facility, where understanding everything starts at the nanoscale. This is one in a series of profiles on the directors of the SC-stewarded user facilities.

Start-up of 22nd run at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Particle smashups have begun for Run 22 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), which serves up data from particle collisions to nuclear physicists all around the world. On the menu this run: collisions between beams of polarized protons interspersed with tests of innovative accelerator techniques while RHIC's recently upgraded STAR detector tracks particles emerging from collisions at a wider range of angles than ever before.

SLAC’s Tony Johnson remembers the WWW Wizards and the birth of North America’s first website

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

This month marks the 30-year anniversary of the first website in North America, launched at SLAC. In this Q&A, one of the Wizards recalls the motivation that spawned the development and how it has changed the work of scientists.

National school on neutron and X-ray scattering brings students together with two national labs

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

The NXS program aims to build connections with graduate students early in their career, so they can see the value of becoming a user of DOE facilities.

Climate Cycles Create California Precipitation Uncertainty

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

What’s at the heart of California’s uncertain future precipitation? New study finds natural cycles are likely cause.

Journal: Nature Communications
Meeting: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2021