ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, July 24 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: * * * Meaningful research, supportive community for college students * * * Summer at Sandia National Laboratories typically means high temperatures, blazing sunlight and campuses filled with bright, eager interns. About 75 of these young innovators have come to Sandia this summer as part of the Future of Research for Climate, Earth and Energy Intern Institute.   more

ARGONNE, Illinois, July 23 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release on July 22, 2024: * * * The discovery has the potential to reduce electronic waste and develop new applications for luminescent polymers The team manipulated the chemical composition of materials to make the polymers more recyclable. * * * From your car's navigation display to the screen you are reading this on, luminescent polymers -- a class of flexible mate  more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on July 25, 2024: * * * Nine Projects Across Seven States Will Support Solar-Powered Production of Hydrogen and Lower Emissions from the Aviation, Food and Beverage, and Other Sectors * * * In support of the Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $33 million for nine projects across seven states to advance concentrating solar-thermal (CST) sys  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: To achieve that level of accuracy, the team trained a novel machine-learning interatomic model by using an extensive cache of quantum mechanical data on various states of carbon, including BC8. "We basically fingerprinted every atomic environment around each atom in a billion-atom system that could result during the system's evolution at extreme pressures and temper  more

NORMAN, Oklahoma, July 25 -- The University of Oklahoma issued the following news release: The University of Oklahoma has become a member of the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute, a national network that solves the biggest challenges facing cybersecurity in the U.S. manufacturing and supply chain industries. Membership in CyManII, coordinated through OU's Data Institute for Societal Challenges, Oklahoma Aerospace and Defense Innovation Institute and Gallogly College of Engineeri  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, July 26 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: * * * New methods at Sandia reduce time to perform environmental tests on weapons systems * * * Testing weapons and components in a lab-controlled environment has always been at the center of Sandia National Laboratories' mission. Since the U.S. stopped underground explosives tests on weapons in the early 1990s, Sandia has developed other methods to con  more

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, July 23 -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: By Russ Nelson With the number of electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States projected to skyrocket to 26.4 million by 2030, the need is great for not only producing, but improving, the safety and efficiency of the batteries that power them, as well as cell phones, autonomous unmanned vehicles and smart electronics. Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Ala  more