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Brookhaven Lab Honors 2023 Bridge Competition Winners

Jacqueline Seifert, a senior at Commack High School, won first place in the 2023 Bridge Building Competition hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory on March 30.


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More Frequent Hurricanes Raise Risk to U.S. East and Gulf Coasts

Hurricanes will become stronger and strike more often on the U.S. Gulf and lower East coasts, according to new research led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, who explored the influence of global warming on the damaging storms.


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Galaxy clusters yield new evidence for standard model of cosmology

A new study probing the structure and evolution of galaxy clusters shows good agreement with the predictions of standard cosmological models.


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The Flightpath from a Groundbreaking Catalyst to Jets that Soar on Renewable Fuel from Waste

In March, a team of researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and LanzaTech was awarded the 2023 American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Award for Affordable Clean Chemistry at the ACS Spring meeting for development of a clean and sustainable alcohol-to-jet-fuel catalytic process, which holds promise for helping the nation achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.


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Sekazi K. Mtingwa Honored with AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize at Annual Meeting

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has recognized physicist and humanitarian Sekazi Mtingwa for his invaluable work in the field of intrabeam scattering and particle accelerator research as well as his tireless efforts to promote accessibility, diversity, and equity in STEM.


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Xuan Zhang: Why spin gold when you can spin steel, and more?

Transforming what seems like nothing into something valuable is the magic of fairy tales.


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How Technoeconomic Analyses Pave the Way to a Low-Carbon Future

Levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide in the air continue to rise. Cutting emissions by moving away from fossil fuels is a priority – but so is removing carbon that’s already been emitted.


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Phil Snyder: Helping to bring fusion down from the stars

When virtually unlimited energy from fusion becomes a reality on Earth, Phil Snyder and his team will have had a hand in making it happen.


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National laboratories partner with minority-serving institutions to prepare students for the new energy workforce

Each year, the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico receives atmospheric dust transported all the way from Africa.


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Scientists Use Peroxide to Peer into Metal Oxide Reactions

Researchers at Binghamton University led research partnering with the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory—to get a better look at how peroxides on the surface of copper oxide promote the oxidation of hydrogen but inhibit the oxidation of carbon monoxide, allowing them to steer oxidation reactions.


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Andrea Delgado unites fundamental, high energy physics with quantum computing

Andrea Delgado is looking for elementary particles that seem so abstract, there appears to be no obvious short-term benefit to her research.


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A new quantum approach to solve electronic structures of complex materials

If you know the atoms that compose a particular molecule or solid material, the interactions between those atoms can be determined computationally, by solving quantum mechanical equations — at least, if the molecule is small and simple.


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DUNE collaboration tests new technology for second detector module

In recent months, the neutrino research facility at the European laboratory CERN has been bustling with activity.


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Projects to fight biological threats receive $5 million in federal funding

Modeling the emergence and spread of biological threats isn’t as routine as forecasting the weather, but scientists in two of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) national laboratories were awarded funding to try to make it so.


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Modeling Agriculture Matters for Carbon Cycling

To understand Earth’s changing climate, scientists often turn to science-based computer simulations.


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ORNL’s Lee named Materials Research Society fellow

Ho Nyung Lee, a condensed matter physicist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected a fellow of the Materials Research Society.


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LPO Offers First Conditional Commitment for a Virtual Power Plant to Sunnova’s Project Hestia to Support Grid Reliability and Expand Clean Energy Access

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) today announced a conditional commitment to Sunnova Energy Corporation’s Project Hestia for an up to $3 billion partial loan guarantee to make distributed energy resources (DERs), including rooftop solar, battery storage, and virtual power plant (VPP)-ready software available to more American homeowners.


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Sector Spotlight: Clean Hydrogen

In this post, I’m diving into how the DOE Loan Programs Office (LPO) is supporting U.S. clean hydrogen projects.


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March 2023 Monthly Application Activity Report

Hi-res graphics for download: MAAR Metrics-Tech Sector Breakdown and MAAR Proposed Project Locations


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DOE Recognizes Two EM Sites for Exceptional Project Management

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk presented EM two Project Management Awards during a ceremony last week, recognizing exceptional results for complex projects.