Media Tip: First of its kind dataset shows future flooding risk at neighborhood level
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used supercomputing resources to develop a new dataset for estimating increased flood risk from climate change during the mid-21st century.
Advanced Computing Brings Autonomous Investigations to Nanostructured Surfaces
Defects in two-dimensional (2D) materials can give these materials special properties, but analyzing defects for useful variants is time consuming. Researchers developed an automated method to analyze these materials that combines scanning tunneling microscopy with artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Physicists ask: Can we make a particle collider more energy efficient?
The future of experimental particle physics is exciting - and energy intensive. SLAC physicists are thinking about how to make one proposal, the Cool Copper Collider, more sustainable.
Machine learning brings faster answers for healthcare providers
When it comes to medical decisions, time is of the essence. In her research, Maria Mahbub applies machine learning to clinical practice guidelines to help reduce time to clinical decisions.
Advances in machine learning for nuclear power operations spell a brighter future for carbon-free energy
Researchers at Argonne are harnessing the power of machine learning to enhance the safety and efficiency of next-generation nuclear reactors. Using a specialized model, researchers may be able to detect anomalies in reactor operations even when they are masked by other noises, ensuring a safer energy future.
Imaging Shows How Inorganic-Microbe Hybrids Use Light to Turn Carbon Dioxide into Bioplastic
Microbe-semiconductor biohybrids merge the power of living systems to produce biological products with the ability of semiconductors to harvest light. They use solar energy to convert carbon dioxide into useful chemicals such as bioplastics and biofuels. To better understand how biohybrids work, researchers developed a way to image these biohybrids with single-cell resolution.
Researchers demonstrate novel technique to observe molten salt intrusion in nuclear-grade graphite
In response to a renewed international interest in molten salt reactors, researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a novel technique to visualize molten salt intrusion in graphite.
Modeling Polymers for Next-Generation Manufacturing and Sustainability
Polymers experience changing conditions during manufacturing, which can affect their final properties and performance. The way they react to manufacturing forces can be extremely complex and hard to measure. Researchers combined theory and modeling to characterize melted polymers under steady flow and revealed universal features that can inform the design of advanced materials for manufacturing.
Theoretical modeling illuminates a new nonlinear Hall Effect
An international team of researchers including a team from the Center for the Advancement of Topological Semimetals (CATS), an Energy Frontier Research Center under the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science led by Ames National Laboratory, experimentally demonstrated a new type of nonlinear Hall effect.
Unlocking Sugar to Generate Biofuels and Bioproducts
Plant biologists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have engineered enzymes to modify grass plants so their biomass can be more efficiently converted into biofuels and other bioproducts.
Entrepreneurship program at Argonne opens applications for startups
Chain Reaction Innovations, the entrepreneurship program at Argonne National Laboratory, seeks innovators to embed at Argonne and develop their clean energy or climate technologies.
Ultrathin Crystals Vibe with Infrared Light
For effective molecular sensing, imaging, and signaling, materials must meet strict crystalline quality requirements. Researchers found an improved way to make high-quality ribbon-shaped nanocrystals that resonate strongly with infrared light. They tested these nanoribbons using a unique, ultrabroadband infrared probe and found the highest quality reported for such materials to date. This quality makes the crystals excellent prospects for use in high-performance infrared devices.
Major milestone achieved in new quantum computing architecture
Researchers at Argonne and partner institutions report a significant advance in quantum computing. They have prolonged the coherence time of their single-electron qubit to an impressive 0.1 milliseconds, nearly a thousand-fold improvement.
Inspection method increases confidence in laser powder bed fusion 3D printing
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have improved flaw detection to increase confidence in metal parts that are 3D-printed using laser powder bed fusion.
At the root of bulked-up plants
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists identified a gene "hotspot" in the poplar tree that triggers dramatically increased root growth. The discovery supports development of better bioenergy crops and other plants that can thrive in difficult conditions while storing more carbon belowground.
PROSPECT Characterizes the Footprint of Neutrinos
Predictions based on the Standard Model of particle physics don't always agree with what scientists see in experimental data. One way to examine these differences is emissions of neutrinos from nuclear reactors. As part of this research agenda, scientists in the PROSPECT Collaboration have reported the most precise measurement ever of the energy spectrum of antineutrinos emitted from the fission of uranium-235, providing a new reference energy spectrum and new constraints on the origin of the disagreements between data and models.
SLAC scientists shed light on potential breakthrough biomedical molecule
Developing a new, light-activated method to produce the molecule opens doors for future biomedical applications.
Researchers probe molten rock to crack Earth's deepest secrets
New research focused on the quantum structure of elements under extreme conditions has implications for understanding Earth's evolution, interpreting unusual seismic signals, and even the study of exoplanets for insights into habitability.
Itinerant Magnetism and Superconductivity in Exotic 2D Metals for Next-Generation Quantum Devices
The Quantum System Accelerator (QSA) researchers at Berkeley Lab conducted a series of experiments with a new type of layered 2D metal (TMD), finding connections in electronic behavior such as itinerant magnetism and superconductivity, which might potentially help fabricate complex superconducting quantum processors.
Scientists Amplify Superconducting Sensor Arrays Signals Near the Quantum Limit
Conventional sensors usually lack the sensitivity needed for studies of quantum phenomena and other complex cases. One solution is to use superconducting sensors, but amplifying their signals is challenging. Researchers built on advances from quantum computing to add a special type of amplifiers, superconducting traveling-wave parametric amplifiers, to superconducting sensors. These amplifiers are almost noiseless and operate at relatively high temperatures.
Electrons are quick-change artists in molten salts, chemists show
In a finding that helps elucidate how molten salts in advanced nuclear reactors might behave, scientists have shown how electrons interacting with the ions of the molten salt can form three states with different properties.
Signaling Across Kingdoms to Build the Plant Microbiome
In a plant microbiome, the microbial community assembles and changes by exchanging signals between the host plant and the microbes. Researchers have gathered and filtered a large amount of data using a combination of computational approaches to identify new mechanisms in this signaling process. The study discovered a host transport mechanism and a chemical signal that influences beneficial bacterial colonization of plants' roots.
Scientists Find the Potential Key to Longer-Lasting Sodium Batteries for Electric Vehicles
Lithium-ion batteries are useful for electric vehicles but use raw materials that are costly and face potential supply chain issues. The performance of one alternative, sodium-ion batteries, declines rapidly with repeated charges and discharges.
Neutrons see stress in 3D-printed parts, advancing additive manufacturing
Using neutrons to see the additive manufacturing process at the atomic level, scientists have shown that they can measure strain in a material as it evolves and track how atoms move in response to stress.
Cleaner Snow Boosts Future Snowpack Predictions
Less pollution and the odd shapes of snow grains as they pack together should help cut the decline of snowpack later this century.