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Unicoin, Top Executives Charged in Offering Fraud That Raised More Than $100 Million From Thousands of Investors
WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following news release:
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Unicoin, Top Executives Charged in Offering Fraud That Raised More than $100 Million from Thousands of Investors
Washington D.C., May 20, 2025 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged New York City-based Unicoin, Inc. and three of its top executives--CEO and Board Chairman Alex Konanykhin; Silvina Moschini, former president, former board chairwoman, and current board member; and former Chief Investment Officer Alex Dominguez--for false and misleading statements in an offering
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WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following news release:
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Unicoin, Top Executives Charged in Offering Fraud That Raised More than $100 Million from Thousands of Investors
Washington D.C., May 20, 2025 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged New York City-based Unicoin, Inc. and three of its top executives--CEO and Board Chairman Alex Konanykhin; Silvina Moschini, former president, former board chairwoman, and current board member; and former Chief Investment Officer Alex Dominguez--for false and misleading statements in an offeringof certificates that purportedly conveyed rights to receive crypto assets called Unicoin tokens and an offering of Unicoin, Inc.'s common stock.
"We allege that Unicoin and its executives exploited thousands of investors with fictitious promises that its tokens, when issued, would be backed by real-world assets including an international portfolio of valuable real estate holdings," said Mark Cave, Associate Director in the SEC's Division of Enforcement. "But as we allege, the real estate assets were worth a mere fraction of what the company claimed, and the majority of the company's sales of rights certificates were illusory. Unicoin's most senior executives are alleged to have perpetuated the fraud, and today's action seeks accountability for their conduct."
The SEC alleges that Unicoin broadly marketed rights certificates to the public through extensive promotional efforts, including advertisements in major airports, on thousands of New York City taxis, and on television and social media. Among other things, Unicoin and its executives are alleged to have convinced more than 5,000 investors to purchase rights certificates through false and misleading statements that portrayed them as investments in safe, stable, and profitable "next generation" crypto assets, including claims that:
* Unicoin tokens underlying the rights certificates were "asset-backed" by billions of dollars of real estate and equity interests in pre-IPO companies, when Unicoin's assets were never worth more than a small fraction of that amount;
* the company had sold more than $3 billion in rights certificates, when it raised no more than $110 million; and
* the rights certificates and Unicoin tokens were "SEC-registered" or "U.S. registered" when they were not.
According to the SEC's complaint, Unicoin and Konanykhin also violated the federal securities laws by engaging in unregistered offers and sales of rights certificates. Konanykhin offered and sold over 37.9 million of his rights certificates to offer better pricing and target investors the company had prohibited from participating in the offering to avoid jeopardizing its exemption to registration requirements, as alleged.
The SEC's complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charges Unicoin, Konanykhin, Moschini, and Dominguez with violations of the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws, Konanykhin and Unicoin with violating the registration provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, and Konanykhin as a control person for certain of Unicoin's antifraud violations. The complaint seeks permanent injunctive relief, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains with prejudgment interest, and civil penalties against Unicoin, Konanykhin, Moschini, and Dominguez, as well as officer-and-director bars against Konanykhin, Moschini, and Dominguez.
The complaint also charges Unicoin's general counsel, Richard Devlin, with violating the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws by negligently making similar misstatements in private placement memoranda Unicoin used to offer and sell rights certificates and Unicoin common stock. Without admitting or denying the SEC's allegations, Devlin has consented to the entry of a final judgment providing permanent injunctive relief and ordering him to pay a $37,500 civil penalty.
The SEC's investigation was conducted by Adam B. Gottlieb, Jason Schall, and Joss Berteaud and was supervised by W. Bradley Ney and Mr. Cave. The litigation will be led by Russell Feldman and Mr. Gottlieb and supervised by Jack Kaufman.
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Original text here: https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025-75
State Department Issues Public Schedule for May 21, 2025
WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The U.S. Department of State issued the daily public schedule for May 21, 2025:
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SECRETARY MARCO RUBIO
10:00 a.m. Secretary Rubio testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the FY26 Department of State Budget Request on Capitol Hill.
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2:00 p.m. Secretary Rubio testifies before the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs on the FY26 Department of State Budget Request on Capitol Hill.
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DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE CHRISTOPHER LANDAU
Deputy Secretary
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WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The U.S. Department of State issued the daily public schedule for May 21, 2025:
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SECRETARY MARCO RUBIO
10:00 a.m. Secretary Rubio testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the FY26 Department of State Budget Request on Capitol Hill.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
2:00 p.m. Secretary Rubio testifies before the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs on the FY26 Department of State Budget Request on Capitol Hill.
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DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE CHRISTOPHER LANDAU
Deputy SecretaryLandau attends meetings and briefings at the Department of State.
SENIOR OFFICIAL FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS LISA KENNA
Senior Official Kenna attends meetings and briefings at the Department of State.
BRIEFING SCHEDULE
No Department Press Briefing.
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Original text here: https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/05/public-schedule-may-21-2025/
President Trump Issues Statement on Emergency Medical Services Week, 2025
WASHINGTON, May 21 -- President Trump issued the following statement on May 20, 2025, on Emergency Medical Services Week:
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Presidential Message on Emergency Medical Services Week, 2025
Over 240 million times a year - nearly seven times every second - an American in need dials 911. With one simple call, Americans can activate a team of highly-skilled and experienced emergency medical professionals to evaluate and administer lifesaving care anytime, anywhere.
Our Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers are made up of ordinary Americans who demonstrate extraordinary courage, compassion,
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WASHINGTON, May 21 -- President Trump issued the following statement on May 20, 2025, on Emergency Medical Services Week:
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Presidential Message on Emergency Medical Services Week, 2025
Over 240 million times a year - nearly seven times every second - an American in need dials 911. With one simple call, Americans can activate a team of highly-skilled and experienced emergency medical professionals to evaluate and administer lifesaving care anytime, anywhere.
Our Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers are made up of ordinary Americans who demonstrate extraordinary courage, compassion,and devotion to duty. When seconds count and lives hang in the balance, we can always count on EMS providers to act swiftly and valiantly in rendering expert medical care.
While we salute and honor the service of our emergency medical technicians, paramedics, emergency medicine nurses and physicians every week, this National EMS Week, we pay special tribute to those who selflessly sacrifice so others may live.
We recognize the sacrifice our EMS providers make each and every day in every corner of our country. Whether on an ambulance or in an emergency room, aboard aircraft or sea-faring vessels, Americans rest easy knowing that the greatest and most field-tested medical providers anywhere in the World are standing by to respond in a moment's notice.
This week, my Administration honors every EMS professional who is selflessly working on the frontlines of crisis to aid others in their hour of need. We offer our unending gratitude to every noble professional and volunteer whose strength, fortitude, and determination keeps America safe.
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Original text here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/05/presidential-message-on-emergency-medical-services-week-2025/
President Trump Issues Statement on Cuban Independence Day, 2025
WASHINGTON, May 21 -- President Trump issued the following statement on May 20, 2025, on Cuban Independence Day:
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Presidential Message on Cuban Independence Day, 2025
On May 20, 1902, after years of fierce warfare in the late 19th century, the Cuban flag was raised for the first time in a mighty victory for the cause of freedom. This Cuban Independence Day, we honor the courageous patriots who broke free from Spanish colonial rule to heroically embrace the eternal values of liberty, sovereignty, and human dignity. My Administration offers its heartfelt support to the people of Cuba as they
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WASHINGTON, May 21 -- President Trump issued the following statement on May 20, 2025, on Cuban Independence Day:
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Presidential Message on Cuban Independence Day, 2025
On May 20, 1902, after years of fierce warfare in the late 19th century, the Cuban flag was raised for the first time in a mighty victory for the cause of freedom. This Cuban Independence Day, we honor the courageous patriots who broke free from Spanish colonial rule to heroically embrace the eternal values of liberty, sovereignty, and human dignity. My Administration offers its heartfelt support to the people of Cuba as theyonce again seek to secure their God-given rights--and we recommit to assisting them in their righteous pursuit of self-government.
For far too long, the communist Cuban regime has trampled on the rights of its people to lead lives of freedom--and has caused endless poverty, suffering, and hardship. America will continue to work alongside our allies and partners in the Western Hemisphere to bring stability, liberty, cooperation, and a free future to the people of Cuba.
As President, I also stand firmly united with the millions of Cuban Americans who have courageously escaped the horrors of Cuban communism, rejected the evils of tyranny, and built their lives, families, and futures on American shores. America benefits greatly from the strength, warmth, and generosity of millions of Cuban Americans, who have contributed to our way of life.
Today, we honor the strength of all those who have dedicated their lives to fighting for their beloved homeland. We pay tribute to the distinctive role Cuban Americans have played in our national story. Above all, we renew our resolve to support the Cuban people in their quest for security, prosperity, and independence.
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Original text here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/05/presidential-message-on-cuban-independence-day-2025/
President Trump Announces Presidential Delegation to the Republic of Ecuador to Attend the Inauguration of His Excellency Daniel Noboa
WASHINGTON, May 21 -- President Trump issued the following news on May 20, 2025:
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President Trump Announces Presidential Delegation to the Republic of Ecuador to Attend the Inauguration of His Excellency Daniel Noboa
President Donald J. Trump today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to Quito, Ecuador to attend the Presidential Inauguration of His Excellency Daniel Noboa, President of the Republic of Ecuador, on May 24, 2025.
The Honorable Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, will lead the delegation.
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Original text here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/05/president-trump-announces-presidential-delegation-to-the-republic-of-ecuador-to-attend-the-inauguration-of-his-excellency-daniel-noboa/
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WASHINGTON, May 21 -- President Trump issued the following news on May 20, 2025:
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President Trump Announces Presidential Delegation to the Republic of Ecuador to Attend the Inauguration of His Excellency Daniel Noboa
President Donald J. Trump today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to Quito, Ecuador to attend the Presidential Inauguration of His Excellency Daniel Noboa, President of the Republic of Ecuador, on May 24, 2025.
The Honorable Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, will lead the delegation.
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Original text here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/05/president-trump-announces-presidential-delegation-to-the-republic-of-ecuador-to-attend-the-inauguration-of-his-excellency-daniel-noboa/
Joint Statement on the U.S.-Turkiye Syria Working Group
WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following joint statement on May 20, 2025, with Turkiye:
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Joint Statement on the U.S.-Turkiye Syria Working Group
The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States and the Republic of Turkiye.
The United States and Turkiye are committed to increasing cooperation and coordination on stability and security in Syria as outlined by President Trump and President Erdogan.
The United States hosted Turkiye for a new round of the Syria Working Group in Washington, D.C. U.S. and Turkish interagency
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WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following joint statement on May 20, 2025, with Turkiye:
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Joint Statement on the U.S.-Turkiye Syria Working Group
The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States and the Republic of Turkiye.
The United States and Turkiye are committed to increasing cooperation and coordination on stability and security in Syria as outlined by President Trump and President Erdogan.
The United States hosted Turkiye for a new round of the Syria Working Group in Washington, D.C. U.S. and Turkish interagencydelegations were led by Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Nuh Yilmaz. U.S. Ambassador to Turkiye Thomas Barrack Jr. and Turkish Ambassador to the United States Sedat Onal also participated.
The delegations discussed shared priorities in Syria, including sanctions relief according to President Trump's directive and combatting terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. The United States and Turkiye share a vision for Syria that is stable and at peace with itself and its neighborhood, which will also allow millions of displaced Syrians to return home.
The United States and Turkiye recognize the importance of maintaining the territorial integrity of Syria. A stable and united Syria, which does not offer a safe haven for terrorist organizations, will support regional security and prosperity.
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Original text here: https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/05/joint-statement-on-the-u-s-turkiye-syria-working-group/
DOE Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Building a Data Pipeline to Accelerate Discovery
WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news:
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Building a Data Pipeline to Accelerate Discovery
By Ashleigh Papp
Key Takeaways
* Researchers at Berkeley Lab and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an accelerated data pipeline called DELERIA, a new software platform for streaming large amounts of data at very high speeds -- from experiment data acquisition to a high-performance computing facility and back -- for analysis in near-real-time, interactive timescales.
* This project is part of a broader Department
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WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news:
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Building a Data Pipeline to Accelerate Discovery
By Ashleigh Papp
Key Takeaways
* Researchers at Berkeley Lab and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an accelerated data pipeline called DELERIA, a new software platform for streaming large amounts of data at very high speeds -- from experiment data acquisition to a high-performance computing facility and back -- for analysis in near-real-time, interactive timescales.
* This project is part of a broader Departmentof Energy (DOE) Office of Science effort to link extensive computational resources to accelerate discovery.
* Once complete, the process and structure developed can be deployed to other scientific endeavors, streamlining researchers' access to supercomputing facilities around the world.
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To understand the forces acting within atomic nuclei or how elements were once created in the cosmos, nuclear physicists often turn to incredibly sensitive, sophisticated detectors. These instruments hunt for the faintest of signals that are often only visible after an experiment is complete and the data thoroughly analyzed.
More recently, nuclear physicists have been leveraging the power of supercomputers to run the analysis as the data emerges. But the connection between an experiment carried out by scientists and the work done by a supercomputer often lags because of the steps needed to move the information back and forth. As a result, the analysis and feedback between experiment and supercomputer can be drawn out over long time periods.
Now, a collaborative software development effort called DELERIA (Distributed Event Level Experiment Readout and Analysis), currently underway at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), is aiming to accelerate the connection between experiment and supercomputer. This data pipeline for detectors brings together the expertise of nuclear physics, software-driven high-performance networking, and supercomputing. Once complete, it has the potential to deliver analysis and feedback in real time and across long distances, shortening the timelines for discovery and accelerating innovation cycles for applications.
"One of the problems we face is how to process the data quickly so that we can directly give feedback to the experimenter with what's going on in their experiment," said Mario Cromaz, a staff scientist in the Nuclear Science Division at Berkeley Lab. "Instead of running an experiment, collecting and storing data, and carrying out complex data analysis later on, the results can be obtained in real time."
The project's current focus is to send live data from the gamma-ray detectors of the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA). This data flows from the instrument at Berkeley Lab in California through the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the DOE's dedicated scientific research network, to the Advanced Computing Ecosystem (ACE) testbed at ORNL's Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a DOE Office of Science user facility in Tennessee, which provides developers with a high-performance computing platform to test existing and emerging technologies without interfering with ongoing research.
Initial tests involving streaming data from 12 GRETA detectors have been successful, and the team is now scaling up. Processed data is returned within seconds, providing near-real-time results. "The amount of data coming from detectors like this is absolutely mind-boggling, and it will only increase going forward," said DELERIA co-developer Gustav Jansen, a computational nuclear physicist at ORNL. "The only viable solution in the long term is to connect experimental and computational facilities, and this collaboration is creating a solution that helps us understand what is required at OLCF to support it."
According to Jansen, the big problem with moving data across the country is latency. Even when traveling at the speed of light, it still takes almost 10 times longer to transmit a single data event than it does to process it. "Because we can't bypass the speed of light, the solution is to trick it. Instead of running one event at a time, we run events in parallel, so that we can process one while others are being transferred. This provides a 10x speedup and ensures the computing cluster is always busy," Jansen said.
Behind the story
The DELERIA collaboration is a testbed project for the nationwide DOE Office of Science Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) initiative, which aims to link the DOE's vast experimental and computational resources to accelerate the pace of discovery. In the past, computing clusters were required to be on-premises and near the science instruments, but collaborative efforts in the last 5 years among U.S. supercomputing facilities and ESnet have laid the groundwork to connect and deliver information at unprecedented rates. Another collaborative effort to connect scientific instruments to computing clusters in real time is the ESnet-JLab FPGA Accelerated Transport device (EJFAT), a networking hardware prototype developed by ESnet and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab).
Testing 1, 2, 3
Heather Crawford, a senior staff scientist in the Nuclear Science Division and deputy project director of GRETA, has spent nearly a decade fine-tuning the instrument for experiments in the fast lane to supercomputing analysis. Like a microscope, GRETA will enable scientists like Crawford to look deep inside the nuclei of atoms to understand their structure and how they react to different external stimuli. This information yields insights into the fundamental building blocks of our world and the forces that make matter exist.
Scheduled for phase-I completion this summer, GRETA is on track to be the world's most powerful gamma-ray reading instrument, so the current experiments with DELERIA are a test that will guide experimental setups in the future. Once complete, GRETA will operate at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) in Michigan, and Crawford and the team are excited to leverage the power of the DELERIA project to accelerate their experiments. Prior to DELERIA, the team used an onsite computing cluster to perform data analysis. "But this is a pretty computationally intensive procedure," Crawford said.
Now, with DELERIA, the team can choose to use a remote high-performance computing facility where more complex analysis can be carried out in real time. This means that GRETA scientists will be able to send individual physics events at very fast rates and process them on interactive timescales across multiple sites.
High-Performance Capabilities
The innovation behind DELERIA lies in its unique approach and architecture, co-designed by ESnet engineers. Specifically, forward buffers allow information to be easily collected from the experiment's electronics and transmitted across ESnet to an offsite computing facility using a messaging protocol that allows high-speed data transfer without losing information. And the use of software containers simplifies deployment across multiple systems by compartmentalizing information to ensure consistent, quick, and scalable deployment.
Ultimately, these innovations enable scientists to run their experiments and computing functions faster while delivering results in real time. "DELERIA now lets us take advantage of the extensive and significant computational advantage at the remote facilities," Crawford said. "Now we get to think about, 'How can we do this even better?'" With DELERIA, data moves at about 40 gigabits every second across the ESnet testbed network. To put that speed in perspective, it's like moving a two-hour HD Netflix movie every second.
Connecting GRETA to the distant supercomputing testbed is ESnet, a high-performance, high-speed network used by tens of thousands of scientific researchers across the DOE complex. After the many data points are analyzed by the OLCF supercomputers, it is sent back in a condensed readout to the scientists as they iterate on their work in real time. "Science is no longer something that is done only in the lab, it is all connected together," said Eric Pouyoul, ESnet's software engineer for DELERIA. "It doesn't matter where the data is, because with ESnet, it can go anywhere."
A Wide Range of Science Applications
The teams involved are keeping an eye on a bigger perspective beyond the GRETA project. "The goal is to make this available to other sciences," said Pouyoul. "The way that the DELERIA computing system has been designed, architected, and implemented leads us to believe this is possible."
The teams involved in this work have already identified many potential applications within and beyond the world of nuclear science. Equipped with real-time feedback on a fusion shot, scientists can update diagnostic parameters for the next shot; and for light source users, real-time analysis could guide experimental settings used to illuminate a sample instantaneously, enabling optimal utilization of time on the beamline.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is committed to groundbreaking research focused on discovery science and solutions for abundant and reliable energy supplies. The lab's expertise spans materials, chemistry, physics, biology, earth and environmental science, mathematics, and computing. Researchers from around the world rely on the lab's world-class scientific facilities for their own pioneering research. Founded in 1931 on the belief that the biggest problems are best addressed by teams, Berkeley Lab and its scientists have been recognized with 16 Nobel Prizes. Berkeley Lab is a multiprogram national laboratory managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.
DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science.
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Original text here: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/05/19/building-a-data-pipeline-to-accelerate-discovery/
