For a laboratory experiment meant to train engineers to manage risks of catastrophic workplace accidents, UVA Engineering’s dust explosion tube is just the thing.

As the year comes to a close, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory reviews some of its most notable achievements of 2024.

For over a decade, the National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation has partnered with Trout Unlimited and others to pull off basin-wide eDNA surveys. This feature highlights the work of volunteers using a new tool, which provides high-quality data about the presence of a suite of the most ecologically and socially important fishes in the Pacific Northwest: bull trout, rainbow trout (steelhead), coastal cutthroat trout, brook trout, sockeye salmon, Chinook salmon, coho salmon, chum salmon, pink salmon, and Pacific lamprey.

Ruben Gonzalez records movies to discover how biomolecules’ motions determine their functions. He has a major new finding.

The holidays can bring good times and happiness, but for many, joy is overshadowed by sadness and grief. There are ways to cope with loss at this time of year, says Wendy Lichtenthal, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and founding director of Sylvester Cancer's Center for the Advancement of Bereavement Care. She is available to discuss perspective to those dealing with loss and feelings of hopelessness during the holiday season – as well as those who care for them

Shadmehr (Shawn) Demehri, MD, PhD, of the Department of Dermatology and Center for Cancer Immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the corresponding author of a paper published in Cancer Cell, “Commensal papillomavirus immunity preserves the homeostasis of highly mutated normal skin.”

For four years, the five U.S. Department of Energy National Quantum Information Science Research Centers have been expanding what’s possible in quantum. Their work is now captured in a new website, nqisrc.org.

Yesterday’s polluting fuel could be transformed into a valuable material for tomorrow’s electric vehicle batteries, thanks to a wide-ranging research project that utilizes expertise spanning the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ORNL researchers created and tested two methods for transforming coal into the scarce mineral graphite, which is used in batteries for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. 

In a series of projects, the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences explores how digital product passports can be implemented, and which sustainability effects they may have. The projects address the areas of plastics, electronics, and food.