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Material scientist Ashley Bielinski relied on her passion for cutting-edge research to grow her career at Argonne
Ashley Bielinski recently finished a Maria Goeppert Mayer (MGM) Fellowship at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.
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Scientists capture elusive chemical reaction using enhanced X-ray method
Chemical reactions often involve intermediate steps that are too fast and complex for us to see – even using our most advanced scientific instruments.
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Princeton University awards plasma physics graduate student Suying Jin a highly selective honorific fellowship
Suying Jin, who is entering her sixth and planned final year as a graduate student in the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics, won Princeton University’s honorific Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship for the 2023-24 academic year.
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Quantum entanglement could make accelerometers and dark matter detectors more precise
The “spooky action at a distance” that once unnerved Einstein may be on its way to being as pedestrian as the gyroscopes that currently measure acceleration in smartphones.
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CCRC to receive $14M from DOE in renewal of bioenergy center
The Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI), a multi-institutional initiative based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and co-led by University of Georgia researchers, has been renewed by the U.S. Department of Energy as one of four bioenergy research centers across the nation that advance robust, economical production of plant-based fuels and chemicals.
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Frib Project Receives Doe-sc Office Of Project Assessment Award For 2022
The FRIB Project received the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of Project Assessment Award for 2022 on 11 April 2023 in Washington, DC.
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Vanderbilt grad student awarded extended DOE residency to advance scholarship in transport of subatomic materials
Nicole Moehring, a fifth-year graduate student in interdisciplinary materials science, has been selected for an extended residency to continue her doctoral research at the Savannah River National Laboratory.
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Probing Lithium Ions Near a Solid’s Surface Reveals Clues to Boost Solid-State Battery Performance
An international team of researchers, including nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego, has uncovered nanoscale changes inside solid-state batteries that could offer new insights into improving battery performance.
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A physicist’s journey to the ‘critical point’ and the ‘strong force’
Yale physicist Helen Caines has arrived at a key juncture in her long campaign to understand the “critical point” and the “strong force” of nuclear matter.
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Technology Ventures Inventor Spotlight: Xiangbo "Henry" Meng
Xiangbo "Henry" Meng's research focuses on synthesis of new inorganic, organic and hybrid nanomaterials in precisely controllable modes at the atomic and molecular level, and development of high-performance energy-storage battery systems.
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Newly Observed Effect Makes Atoms Transparent to Certain Frequencies of Light
A newly discovered phenomenon dubbed "collectively induced transparency" (CIT) causes groups of atoms to abruptly stop reflecting light at specific frequencies.
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Chemists tackle the tough challenge of recycling mixed plastics
Plastics are everywhere in our daily lives, but not all plastics are created equal – far from it.
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Husker duo part of national push for improved biofuels
Lincoln research that aims to transform sorghum into a sustainable feedstock for the bioeconomy is receiving renewed support from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Innovation at Work: Nearly four decades of study filling 46 lab notebooks – all for better batteries
Steve Martin has seven plaques hanging above his office windows, each commemorating an invention or co-invention, each showing off the front page of an official U.S. patent.
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Class of 2023: Sierra Tutwiler puts her energy into energy
Sierra Tutwiler always knew she wanted to attend college. But she also knew that getting there wasn’t going to be easy. Her mom worked 60 hours a week in retail just to keep them afloat.
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Putting hydrogen on solid ground: simulations with a machine learning model predict a new phase of solid hydrogen
Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is found everywhere from the dust filling most of outer space to the cores of stars to many substances here on Earth.
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Scientists Study Ice Formation in the Atmosphere
Proposing New Methods to Better Understand This Atmospheric Phenomenon
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University awarded DOE grant to research high energy physics
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has finalized its approval of a $125,000 grant to Cal State San Bernardino’s Department of Physics and Astronomy to support CSUSB students’ research on high energy physics at the Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL).
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Morgan to Address Urban Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations with $5M Department of Energy Grant Award
Morgan State University (MSU) has been awarded a $5-million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish an integrated field laboratory (IFL) to study climate impacts and adaptations in urban environments.
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Ceremony unveils new buildings to advance science at Fermilab
On April 13, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory celebrated three important construction milestones designed to increase the lab’s research efficiencies and capabilities and continue progress on the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.