The Office of Communications and Public Affairs (OCPA) has several vehicles to update the public on the latest scientific outcomes of projects funded with support from the Office of Science. Each year, we post more than 2000 research news items as well as an equivalent number of Twitter messages. Our most recent items are featured on our home page. Here you will find searchable archives for Featured Articles, Science Headlines, Science Highlights, and University Research News. You may also search all these datasets simultaneously in our master news archive.
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Cloud Simulations on Frontier Awarded Gordon Bell Special Prize for Climate Modeling
Now Streaming: Nuclear Physics
Reflecting Real-World Precipitation Extremes in Climate Simulations
Searching for Particles Beyond the Standard Model
The team of scientists developed a model that uses the world’s first exascale supercomputer to simulate decades’ worth of cloud formations.
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JLab adapts internet TV approach to filter, calibrate and analyze accelerator data in real time.
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Climate scientists are working to improve climate models so they can more accurately represent precipitation extremes.
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Scientists are looking for new particles that expand our understanding of the building blocks and fundamental forces of the universe.
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Science Headlines
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Researchers reduced the amount of platinum group metals needed to make an effective cell and found a new way to test future fuel cell innovations.
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Cooperative behavior among components in batteries points to an exciting new approach to designing next-generation technologies.
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DOE is awarding 60% of available time on the leadership-class supercomputers at DOE’s Argonne & Oak Ridge Labs to accelerate discovery & innovation.
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Dillon Fong, Katrin Heitmann and Ahren Jasper were recognized for their work in materials science, cosmology and chemistry.
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The first climate scientist to head DOE's Office of Science, Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, recently visited two ORNL-led field research facilities.
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SLAC physicists are thinking about how to make one proposal, the Cool Copper Collider, more sustainable.
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At Argonne, Brown studies the algorithms and architecture that can best serve the huge computational problems supercomputers can handle.
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PNNL scientists took thousands of measurements of firefighters in training to learn more about how the body responds to vigorous exercise.
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Scientists working on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment are preparing for the first test of a prototype detector in a neutrino beam.
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Guillermo Fernandez Moroni first began working with sensors at Fermilab as an undergraduate student in 2010.
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Science Highlights
University Research News
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The self-healing crystals could improve materials used in today’s electronics.
December 1, 2023
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Researchers at MIT and Harvard University have developed an efficient process that can convert carbon dioxide into formate, a liquid or solid material
December 1, 2023
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The next 10 years of nuclear physics research could see major discoveries, experts said at a livestreamed debrief.
December 1, 2023
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Reporting in the journal Nature, a group of researchers led by Caltech is among the first to demonstrate a type of quantum eraser.
November 30, 2023
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Cornell researchers took a novel approach to explore the way microstructure emerges in a 3D-printed metal alloy.
November 30, 2023
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On 6 October, Western Michigan University Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Julian Vasquez Heilig and colleagues visited FRIB.
November 30, 2023
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Penn Engineering Assistant Professor Ottman Tertuliano’s lab creates visual data that demonstrates how bones behave under dynamic stress.
November 29, 2023
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The need for quick and “real-time” forecasting of tropical cyclones is more necessary than ever given the impact of climate change on rainfall amounts
November 29, 2023
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ME Ph.D. student Juampablo Heras Rivera is studying medical applications for fluid dynamics and machine learning as a member of KurtLab.
November 29, 2023
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Under this MOU, UTRGV faculty and students will actively engage in critical Department of Energy mission areas.
November 28, 2023
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