tech2017-07-13
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are using supercomputers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to advance disease studies by enhancing our understanding of RNA, biological polymers that are fundamentally involved in health and disease. Source: DOE....Read more
tech2017-07-12
(NewsUSA) - CME Group has once again partnered with National 4-H Council to sponsor the interactive and educational Commodity Carnival, which will visit 120 state and county fairs in the Midwest during the summer and fall of 2017. The Commodity Carnival and companion app, Risk Ranch, give players a ....Read more
tech2017-07-11
(NewsUSA) - Most companies know the need to go mobile to make their workforce more productive and efficient, but many don't know what is needed outside of buying some tablets and software.The truth is, companies simply don't consider how a mobile employee will carry or use a tablet while out in the ....Read more
tech2017-07-10
Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry awarded a five-year, $1.73 billion new contract to Stanford University to manage and operate SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA. The award continues Stanford’s record as contractor for the management and operations (M&O) contract for t....Read more
tech2017-07-07
The central hub for powerful electron beams at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is getting a makeover to prepare for the installation of LCLS-II – a major upgrade to the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world’s first hard X-ray free-electron laser. Sourc....Read more
tech2017-07-06
Recent experiments on the Lithium Tokamak Experiment (LTX), the first facility to fully surround plasma with liquid lithium, showed that lithium coatings can produce temperatures that stay constant all the way from the hot central core of the plasma to the normally cool outer edge. Source: DOE (sc....Read more
tech2017-07-06
Under the FICUS initiative, researchers leverage capabilities and resources across the Department of Energy user facilities such as the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory and the Joint Genome Institute in pursuit of a single, overarching research goal that cannot be achieved with the capabi....Read more
tech2017-07-06
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have made the first direct measurements, and by far the most precise ones, of how electrons move in sync with atomic vibrations rippling through an exotic material, as if they were dancing to the ....Read more
tech2017-07-05
Theta, a new production supercomputer located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonnne National Laboratory is officially open to the research community. The new machine’s massively parallel, many-core architecture continues Argonne’s leadership computing program towards its future Aurora sy....Read more
tech2017-07-05
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a previously unknown mechanism involved in “electrolyte gating,” a method for increasing electrical conductivity in materials and potentially inducing superconductivity. Source: DOE (science.energy.go....Read more
tech2017-07-05
A team led by Pamela Ronald, a professor in the Genome Center and the Department of Plant Pathology at UC Davis and director of Grass Genetics at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), with collaborators from UC Davis and the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), report....Read more
tech2017-07-03
Using the 27-petaflop Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a team of researchers based at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are predicting how ITER—the world’s largest experimental magnetic fusion reactor, currently under construction in France—will withstand t....Read more
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