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Any Way the Wind Blows
Forecasting the wind for tomorrow is a daily challenge to wind farm operators in places like the Columbia River Gorge in the Pacific Northwest. To more accurately predict wind in complex terrain, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory partnered in a project called Wind Forecast Improvement Project II (WFIP 2).
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Energy Secretary Perry Visits Ames National Laboratory
Energy Secretary Rick Perry made his first visit to the Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory on Tuesday where he toured the facilities, met with Laboratory leadership and scientists, and thanked staff for their work in materials research.
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Missing Gamma-ray Blobs Shed New Light on Dark Matter, Cosmic Magnetism
Scientists, including researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, have compiled the most detailed catalog of extended gamma-ray sources using eight years of data collected with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope.
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Scientists Forge Ahead with Electron Microscopy to Build Quantum Materials Atom by Atom
A novel technique that nudges single atoms to switch places within an atomically thin material could bring scientists another step closer to realizing theoretical physicist Richard Feynman’s vision of building tiny machines from the atom up.
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New NSLS-II Beamline Illuminates Electronic Structures
On July 15, 2018, the Soft Inelastic X-ray Scattering (SIX) beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)—a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory—welcomed its first visiting researchers. SIX is an experimental station designed to measure the electronic properties of solid materials using ultrabright x-rays. The materials can be as small as a few microns—one millionth of a meter.
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The Graphic Nature of Data
Argonne scientists inspired high schoolers to think big about data and how to visualize it at a three-day camp this summer.
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Mixed Precision: A Strategy for New Science Opportunities
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility computational scientist Wayne Joubert explores numerical precision to accelerate scientific discovery.
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How Drought and Other Extremes Impact Water Pollution
Q&A with Berkeley Lab hydrological science expert Bhavna Arora, who explains how unseasonably warm weather and drought can affect water quality.
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Argonne to Advance High Performance Computing in Manufacturing
The High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) Program, operated by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), leverages world-class technical expertise with high performance computing to tackle manufacturing challenges uniquely solved by computer modeling. DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory and industry partners were recently awarded funding for four of the 13 projects under the program.
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Scientists Present New Clues to Cut Through the Mystery of Titan’s Atmospheric Haze
A research collaboration involving scientists in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has zeroed in on a low-temperature chemical mechanism that may have driven the formation of multiple-ringed molecules – the precursors to more complex chemistry now found in the moon’s brown-orange haze layer.
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Expanding Fungal Diversity, One Cell at a Time
A team led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has developed a pipeline to generate genomes from single cells of uncultivated fungi.
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HP-CONCORD Paves the Way for Scalable Machine Learning in HPC
A team of Berkeley Lab researchers has demonstrated how a new parallel algorithm called HP-CONCORD can help address some of the most challenging problems in data-driven science.
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