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19-Dec-2024

Plasma heating efficiency in fusion devices boosted by metal screens

DOE/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have performed computer simulations confirming a technique that prevents the production of unhelpful electromagnetic waves, boosting the heat put into fusion plasma.

Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

19-Dec-2024

Biden-⁠Harris administration honors extraordinary American scientists

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration awarded the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award to Héctor D. Abruña, Paul Alivisatos, and John H. Nuckolls for their exemplary contributions to advance efforts to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges, including improving health outcomes, clean energy, and national security.

18-Dec-2024

Hey! Where’s my qubit?

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico have for the first time demonstrated a practical way to detect these atom loss for neutral atom quantum computers.

Journal: PRX Quantum

17-Dec-2024

Jefferson Lab devotes $3 million to testing new ideas

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Grant and Award Announcement

Jefferson Lab announces its newest slate of projects to receive Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) program funding for 2025. In its 12th year, the LDRD program will split $3 million among 13 different projects.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

16-Dec-2024

DOE’s RENEW initiative to support seven Pathway Summer Institutes for Educators of underrepresented and underserved groups in STEM

DOE/US Department of Energy
Grant and Award Announcement

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science (SC) will support nearly 85 educators who either teach at schools and community colleges with large populations of students historically underserved and/or underrepresented in STEM or are educators who are from groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM through awards for seven Pathway Summer Institutes for Educators at seven national laboratories.