Connecting Research and Experts with Journalists

• share
• favorite_border

A collection of seven technologies for lithium recovery developed by scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been licensed to Element3, a Texas-based company focused on extracting lithium from wastewater produced by oil and gas production.

• share
• favorite_border

A new international research project showed that intervention with mobile vaccination teams in Sierra Leone is an effective way of reaching rural populations to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates.

• share
• favorite_border

A team of scientists, with help from Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source, have demonstrated the existence of an elusive state of matter known as quantum spin nematic.

• share
• favorite_border

In a bold move, oil companies are significantly ramping up their offshore drilling operations, reflecting a global surge in demand for energy.

• share
• favorite_border

Yale Cancer Center (YCC) and Smilow Cancer Hospital (SCH) have again received an internationally recognized accreditation for cellular therapy and stem cell transplantation from the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT), giving patients life-saving cancer treatment options in Connecticut.

• share
• favorite_border

Under DOE’s Integrated Research Infrastructure initiative, a team from ORNL and SLAC is establishing a data portal that will enable Frontier to process the results from experiments conducted by LCLS-II. Scientists and users at LCLS will leverage ORNL’s computing power to study their data, conduct simulations and more quickly inform their ongoing experiments, all within a seamless framework. 

• share
• favorite_border

UC San Diego Medical Center earns “LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer” designation from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Healthcare Equality Index.

• share
• favorite_border

UCLA Health is set to host a unique symposium this week to explore the evolving research in psychedelic therapies and how combining it with reconnection to natural world could help to amplify their mental health benefits.

• share
• favorite_border

• share
• favorite_border

Computational scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have published a study in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation that questions a long-accepted factor in simulating the molecular dynamics of water: the 2 femtosecond (one quadrillionth of a second) time step.