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Researchers have introduced a revised emission treatment that conserves mass and preserves the original heterogeneity. Accurately representing the spatial distribution of aerosol

aerosols

Small particles or droplets, such as wildfire smoke, volcanic gases, or salty sea spray, that float in the air. They are emitted by both natural events and human activities.

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emissions is crucial for improving the accuracy of aerosol simulations in high-resolution or variable-resolution Energy Exascale Earth System Models.

earth system model (ESM)

A model that simulates how chemistry, biology, and physical forces work together. These models are similar to, but much more comprehensive than, global climate models.

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Public transit is vital for Chicago's mobility, providing access to jobs and services. However, lower ridership and funding issues raise the question of what would happen if public transit wasn’t an option. A recent study led by Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), reveals that the Chicago region would face severe consequences if its public transportation system was eliminated.

Two student teams have claimed first place in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) annual water power collegiate competitions! The University of New Hampshire team was named overall winner in the 2024 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition (MECC), and Northern Arizona University took the top spot in the Hydropower

hydropower

One of the oldest and largest sources of renewable energy, which uses the natural flow of moving water to generate electricity

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Collegiate Competition (HCC).

Plants, algae and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe and the fuel for food webs as they turn carbon dioxide

carbon dioxide (CO2)

An important heat-trapping gas, also known as a greenhouse gas, that comes from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels (such as coal, oil, and natural gas), from wildfires, and natural processes like volcanic eruptions.

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and water into oxygen and sugars. How photosynthesis works, though, is much harder to pin down. Researchers studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein have gained new insights into how cyanobacteria cycle carbon in changing conditions.

Some parts of the world have been so successful in making inexpensive renewable electricity that we occasionally have too much of it. One possible use for that low-cost energy: Converting carbon dioxide into fuel and other products using a device called a membrane-electrode assembly.

On Monday, June 3, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory participated in a signing ceremony with the Green Era Campus in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood to commemorate a newly established agreement: a memorandum of understanding (MOU). This MOU will enhance their collaboration on sustainability research, renewable energy,

renewable energy

Renewable energy comes from unlimited, naturally replenished resources, such as the sun, tides, and wind. Renewable energy can be used for electricity generation, space and water heating and cooling, and transportation.

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and food equity.

Eight researchers were recently selected to participate in summer soil sampling for the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory’s Molecular Observation Network (MONet). The awarded principal investigators and research teams will be collecting 84 soil samples this summer across the continental United States.

What’s the difference between a dog and a muffin? While you may immediately be able to tell the difference between the two, computer vision models—a type of artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence

A machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations or decisions influencing real or virtual environments.

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(AI)—need to be trained first. Students at this year’s National Science Bowl, hosted by the Department of Energy, were tasked to do just that.

Bruno Grunau, the regional director of Applied Research for Communities in Extreme Environments at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Alaska Campus, debriefs the recent Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference and discusses future plans for the nation's only Arctic state.

In August 2023, the DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research program held the Southeast Land–Atmosphere Research Opportunities virtual workshop to identify gaps in understanding terrestrial

terrestrial

The geographical and biological features that are associated with the Earth's solid, rocky surface, residing on or resembling the land or terrain found on our planet.

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processes in the southeastern United States. This region, important for its economic, ecological, and societal impact, will host the third Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Mobile Facility to collect climate and atmospheric data.

Take a look at your smartphone. The processor inside of it runs at about a gigahertz, or a billion cycles per second. Imagine a computer operating at a billion times that speed. This is exascale, meaning a computer system that can calculate a quintillion operations a second or exaFLOPS, FLoating-point Operations Per Second. That’s the power of the massive new Aurora exascale supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.

The Brookhaven National Laboratory African American Advancement Group (AAAG) is excited to announce the 2024 AAAG STEM Scholarship and the Vincent J. Castillo STEM Scholarship. These scholarships, sponsored by the AAAG employee resource group, provide financial support to high school seniors planning to pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) fields.