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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 20-Jun-2026 08:15 ET (20-Jun-2026 12:15 GMT/UTC)

Common ‘Core’: Using molecular fragments to detect deadly opioids

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a method to detect trace amounts of synthetic opioids. They plan to combine their approach with miniaturized sensors to create a hand-portable instrument easily used by law enforcement agents for efficient detection in the field.

Argonne scientists advance global climate models by embarking on two new field campaigns

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists from multiple national laboratories and universities are pursuing two new ARM field campaigns. The campaigns will track climate-related processes, delivering data that will be use to improve global climate models and simulations.

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.