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Researchers at DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are using machine learning to create a model for rapid control of plasma.

Professors Kathryn and Jonathan Morris from Xavier University are using neutron scattering at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to observe firsthand how these info-chemicals travel along tiny, pipe-like networks called fungal hyphae. Whether the messages move passively along the outside of those fungal networks or the fungi deliberately locate and absorb info-chemicals for transportation remains unclear.

The U.S. Department of Energy has conferred two Project Management Achievement awards for Fermilab projects: the Muon g-2 Project and the Utilities Upgrade Project. They were two of three awards given out this year for Office of Science projects. The project teams include staff from Fermilab, the DOE Fermi Site Office and the DOE Office of Science Office of High Energy Physics.

The structure of a fundamental electrical switch in the brain has been revealed, thanks to PNNL researchers working together with counterparts at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). PNNL scientists Adam Swensen and Wei-Jun Qian performed mass spectrometry experiments that allowed the team to reconstruct the molecular structure of the AMPA receptor much more accurately than was possible with the cryo-EM data alone.