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A cast cylinder head made from 16HT, an alloy in the ACMZ family. Image Credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL

Titan Speeds Inquiry Into Engine Alloys That Can Take the Heat

Simulations performed on the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) filled in a knowledge gap about high-temperature–capable alloys and inspired engineers to successfully develop a new cast aluminum–copper alloy that promises to withstand engine temperatures as high as 300°C—a temperature too extreme for current aluminum alloys—and offer more design flexibility.

First Particle Tracks Seen in Prototype for International Neutrino Experiment

The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of a new chapter in the story of the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).

Department of Energy Announces $120 Million for Battery Innovation Hub

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $120 million over five years to renew the Joint Center for Energy Story Research (JCESR), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub devoted to advancing battery science and technology, led by Argonne National Laboratory.

Brookhaven Lab computational scientist Shinjae Yoo (left) and research associate Ji Hwan Park

Machine Learning IDs Markers to Help Predict Alzheimer's

A team from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University Medical Center, Stony Brook University, and Ilsan Hospital in South Korea has shown that a combination of two different modes of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer-based image analysis, and image classification using machine learning models may be a promising approach to accurately predicting Alzheimer’s risk.

Graphene Helps Protect Photocathodes for Physics Experiments

Argonne scientists have developed a way to extend the lifetime of photocathodes by wrapping them up in a protective coat of atomically thin grapheme.

Hallar circa 2010: outdoors, checking a sampling instrument at Storm Peak Laboratory.

UEC Profile: Science in High Places

Hooked on science early, researcher and professor Gannet Hallar now investigates clouds and aerosols in the Intermountain West.

Artur Apresyan Receives $2.5 Million Award to Develop Detectors for High-Luminosity LHC

The upgraded collider will produce collisions at seven times the rate of the current LHC. Apresyan’s work will ensure the CMS detector can take on the particle flood.

David Green: Teaming Up to Solve Questions in Fusion

David Green, a computational physicist in the Theory and Modeling group of the Fusion and Materials for Nuclear Systems Division, came to ORNL as a postdoc from Newcastle University in Australia. He studied physics during his undergraduate years and worked for a semester in a professor’s lab, which engaged him more than the typical lectures and got him interested in research.

Engage Engines! New Research Illuminates Complex Processes Inside Plasma Propulsion Systems for Satellites

If you think plasma thrusters are found only in science fiction, think again. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have been uncovering the physics behind these high-tech engines, which maneuver satellites in space. New research involving computer simulations gives physicists confidence that they can peer into the inner workings of these machines.

All Aboard the Jungle Express!

In the quest to find the key to a rainforest dwelling bacterium’s lignin-degrading ability, researchers at the Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have constructed a gene expression system that outperforms conventional systems. Controlling gene expression is crucial to scientists’ ability to perform basic science and biotechnological research to produce enzymes, bio-based products, and biofuels, both at the bench and on industrial scales.

A Trick of the Light

Argonne researchers are using nanoparticles to make photodetectors better able to handle the ultraviolet radiation produced in high-energy physics experiments.

STAR Team Receives Secretary's Achievement Award

The Brookhaven Lab scientists, engineers, and support staff who run the Solenoidal Tracker (STAR) experiment at the Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) received one of 17 Achievement Awards presented by Secretary of Energy Rick Perry at the Secretary’s Honor Awards ceremony held in Washington, D.C. August 29.