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Newly Updated Strategic Vision Sets Course for EM Cleanup Over Next Decade
By DOE Newswire | May 19, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - EM today released its Strategic Vision 2023-2033, a blueprint to the program’s anticipated cleanup achievements over the next decade.
Wildfire Awareness Month: How You Can Prepare
By DOE Newswire | May 19, 2023
News Release: Due to climate change, wildfires are increasing in intensity and size, resulting in damaging economic, environmental, and community health impacts. May is Wildfire Awareness Month, and we’re shedding light on the damaging impact of wildfires, how to prevent them, and how to protect yourself this upcoming wildfire season.
Wildfire Awareness Month: How You Can Prepare
By DOE Newswire | May 19, 2023
News Release: Due to climate change, wildfires are increasing in intensity and size, resulting in damaging economic, environmental, and community health impacts. May is Wildfire Awareness Month, and we’re shedding light on the damaging impact of wildfires, how to prevent them, and how to protect yourself this upcoming wildfire season.
Biden-Harris Administration Invests $251 Million to Expand Infrastructure to Support CO2 Transport and Storage
By DOE Newswire | May 19, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $251 million to support 12 selected projects across seven states that will bolster the nation’s carbon management capabilities. The projects, funded by President Biden’s Bipartisan...
DOE Seeks Information on the Use of Unconventional and Secondary Sources as Feedstocks to Rebuild and Secure a Domestic Critical Minerals Supply Chain
By DOE Newswire | May 19, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) has released a Request for Information (RFI) that seeks input on the regional assessment and production of rare earth elements, critical minerals, and novel high-value, nonfuel carbon-based products...
CCRC to receive $14M from DOE in renewal of bioenergy center
By DOE Newswire Report | May 17, 2023
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.
Frib Project Receives Doe-sc Office Of Project Assessment Award For 2022
By DOE Newswire Report | May 17, 2023
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.
Vanderbilt grad student awarded extended DOE residency to advance scholarship in transport of subatomic materials
By DOE Newswire Report | May 17, 2023
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.
Probing Lithium Ions Near a Solid’s Surface Reveals Clues to Boost Solid-State Battery Performance
By DOE Newswire Report | May 17, 2023
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.
A physicist’s journey to the ‘critical point’ and the ‘strong force’
By DOE Newswire Report | May 17, 2023
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.
Technology Ventures Inventor Spotlight: Xiangbo "Henry" Meng
By DOE Newswire Report | May 17, 2023
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.
Newly Observed Effect Makes Atoms Transparent to Certain Frequencies of Light
By DOE Newswire Report | May 17, 2023
A newly discovered phenomenon dubbed "collectively induced transparency" (CIT) causes groups of atoms to abruptly stop reflecting light at specific frequencies.
Chemists tackle the tough challenge of recycling mixed plastics
By DOE Newswire Report | May 17, 2023
Plastics are everywhere in our daily lives, but not all plastics are created equal – far from it.
Husker duo part of national push for improved biofuels
By DOE Newswire Report | May 17, 2023
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.
Innovation at Work: Nearly four decades of study filling 46 lab notebooks – all for better batteries
By DOE Newswire Report | May 17, 2023
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.
Class of 2023: Sierra Tutwiler puts her energy into energy
By DOE Newswire Report | May 17, 2023
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.
Putting hydrogen on solid ground: simulations with a machine learning model predict a new phase of solid hydrogen
By DOE Newswire Report | May 17, 2023
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.
Scientists Study Ice Formation in the Atmosphere
By DOE Newswire Report | May 17, 2023
Proposing New Methods to Better Understand This Atmospheric Phenomenon
Savannah River Site-Sponsored Robotics Team Makes Inroads at International Competition
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2023
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM ) contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) once again sponsored a team from Aiken High School to join an international robotics championship competition.
University awarded DOE grant to research high energy physics
By DOE Newswire Report | May 17, 2023
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).