Excess ammonia can contribute to water pollution, poor soil quality, & climate change. Agriculture is the biggest source. But a team with scientists Oak Ridge Lab found that we could cut ammonia emissions by 38% without limiting fertilizer. #ClimateScienceSunday ornl.gov/news/reaping-a…

How do you create collective wisdom from multiple physics models? Researchers Skidmore College, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) & MSU combined machine learning and sophisticated statistical analysis to improve results as data accumulate: energy.gov/science/np/art…

The National Science Bowl is coming down to its final rounds! Be sure to tune in tomorrow morning starting at 8:55 AM ET: science.osti.gov/wdts/nsb/2024-…

How will climate change affect different places around the world? Researchers Argonne National Lab are running Earth systems models on supercomputers to understand these impacts, as covered FOX 32 News. They're also working on tech to tackle climate change: fox32chicago.com/video/1445010

Talk about a once-in-a-lifetime wedding! Except in this case, it's once in a billion years. A team that includes scientists Berkeley Lab witnessed 2 lifeforms combining into 1, as covered in Mashable: me.mashable.com/science/40952/…

Fuel cells & metal-air batteries both rely on a chemical process called oxygen reduction. The process relies on expensive platinum. Argonne National Lab, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, & Tohoku University scientists studied cheaper alloys that could be alternatives. #ScienceNeverSleeps energy.gov/science/bes/ar…

Heading to the big stage Monday at 8:45 AM for the #NSB2024 Middle School Championship final rounds are BASIS Independent Bellevue and Hopkins Junior High School. Join us online tomorrow for updates throughout the high school competition Sunday.

We don't know much about dark energy - yet. The DESI Survey just released its first results. While they mostly match up with theory, there are a few potentially interesting differences, as researchers Berkeley Lab note in coverage Popular Mechanics: popularmechanics.com/space/deep-spa…

What happens when protons and neutrons form atomic nuclei? New work by researchers NC State University, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) & MSU improves how to understand why protons repulse each other in simulations: energy.gov/science/np/art…

Human 'computers' were essential for calculating equations for the moon landing. Now, scientists use massive supercomputers to plan spaceflight. NASA engineers have been working with OLCF to simulate descending to Mars, as reported by WATE 6 On Your Side: wate.com/video/nasa-use…

When fluid moves through rock, it can change the fractures in the rock and the rock's permeability. Researchers Los Alamos National Laboratory studied these processes to produce better simulations that could improve geothermal energy production and carbon sequestration: energy.gov/science/bes/ar…

Even microbes can be put to work. They can be powerful tools for synthetic biology if scientists can modify them to do the needed jobs. Researchers Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Lab and partners developed a new method to introduce genes into bacteria. #ScienceNeverSleeps energy.gov/science/ber/ar…

What do the finals of the National Science Bowl (National ScienceBowl) look like? It's not all hard work, to say the least! Here's a peek at what the finalists last year got up to...

The NSLS-II light source Brookhaven Lab has hundreds of moving parts with a team to match it. As the controls engineer, Kunal Shroff translates what the machines are doing to help researchers use the equipment effectively: bnl.gov/newsroom/news.…

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We may not be on a tropical island like weezer, but PPPL researchers have paired two methods to fine-tune magnetic islands & suppress instabilities to enhance plasma control for #fusion . bit.ly/4aA91YP

A structure found in algae that is key to making nitrogen available for global food chains started out as an independent microbe before being swallowed up by the bigger cell. Now we know this symbiotic entity has become a permanent resident! UC Santa Cruz
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It's been a long, hard road for the students participating in the National Science Bowl! The teams competing this weekend worked their way through regional competitions to earn the right to test their knowledge in the finals. Tune in on Monday! science.osti.gov/wdts/nsb/2024-…

Your skill at Tetris may help you pack your suitcase, but for researchers Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) & Berkeley Lab, the game inspired a new way to monitor radioisotopes. Their approach towards arranging sensors and moving them around could result in smaller, cheaper arrays: news.mit.edu/2024/mit-resea…

Light shining off a disco ball is funky, but electron movement when light is pointed at a crystal is too. Studying how electrons move between molecules called hemes, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory scientists found that temperature affects the process more than expected: prl.natsci.msu.edu/news-and-event…

“Designing custom accelerators used to be difficult and time consuming ... SODA allows users to explore different accelerator designs without requiring any hardware design expertise.” - Antonino Tumeo Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, who led the development of the SODA toolkit: pnnl.gov/publications/e…