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Supercomputing Award of 5.78 Billion Hours to 55 Computational Research Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced 55 projects with high potential for accelerating discovery through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.

ECP Awards $34M for Software Development

The Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) today announced the selection of 35 software development proposals representing 25 research and academic organizations.

Solar Cells Get Boost with Integration of Water-Splitting Catalyst onto Semiconductor

Led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, scientists have found a way to engineer the atomic-scale chemical properties of a water-splitting catalyst for integration with a solar cell, and the result is a big boost to the stability and efficiency of artificial photosynthesis.

Argonne Researchers Win Three 2016 R&D 100 Awards

The awards, organized by R&D magazine, are given out annually for the top technologies of the year, at the R&D 100 Awards and Technology Conference.

Accelerating Cancer Research with Deep Learning

Using the Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at ORNL, researchers applied deep learning to extract useful information from cancer pathology reports, a foundational element of cancer surveillance.

PPPL Physicists Build Diagnostic that Measures Plasma Velocity in Real Time

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a diagnostic that provides crucial real-time information about the ultrahot plasma swirling within doughnut-shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks.

Fermilab “Deepens” its Relationship with Sanford Underground Research Facility

Fermilab in Batavia, IL and Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota are the sites of the future Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and its Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility.

Brookhaven Lab Wins Three 2016 R&D 100 Awards

The Brookhaven Lab winners are the Hard X-ray Scanning Microscope with Multilayer Laue Lens Nanofocusing Optics (a joint award with DOE's Argonne National Laboratory), MoSoy Catalyst, and Nanostructured Anti-reflecting and Water-repellent Surface Coatings.

Study: Carbon-Hungry Plants Impede Growth Rate of Atmospheric CO2

New findings of a multi-institutional study led by a scientist from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) suggest the rate at which CO2 is accumulating in the atmosphere has plateaued in recent years because Earth’s vegetation is grabbing more carbon from the air than in previous decades.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Wins Seven R&D 100 Awards

The awards, known as the “Oscars of Invention,” honor innovative breakthroughs in materials science, biomedicine, consumer products and more from academia, industry and government-sponsored research agencies.

We Gather Here Today to Join Lasers and Anti-Lasers

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have for the first time created a single device that acts as both a laser and an anti-laser, and they demonstrated these two opposite functions at a frequency within the telecommunications band.

PNNL Wins 2 R&D 100 Awards for Underground Cleanup and Carbon Capture

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory tools that track underground contaminants and speed carbon capture technology development are among R&D Magazine’s 100 most innovative scientific breakthroughs of the year.