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From one of the Energy Department Labs, a new approach to electric grid cybersecurity

Among the grand challenges for cybersecurity is how to make the nation’s electrical grid safer. It’s a big problem in a lot of ways.

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(Graphic courtesy U.S. Army)Artificial Intelligence

Inside a collaboration between Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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Getty Images/iStockphoto/vchalQuantum Computing

A national lab wants to make complex chemistry problems a little more solvable

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Musurlian, Peter

Exclusive and rare interviews with the leadership of the Transportation Security Laboratory

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DOEPete McGrail, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy Department

Energy explores new way to harvest precious metals to help U.S. reserves

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Data centers pose prime opportunity to cut federal electricity consumption

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Federal researchers are running simulations on the power grid of the future

Electric cars, more windmills, more solar power, add it up and the nation is facing a crisis in the electrical grid needed to support it all. That is,…

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A robot takes Covid-19 RNA out of test assay plates delivered by Coronavirus testing centres to the Wellcome Sanger Institute that is operated by Genome Research in Cambridge, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Cambridge University microbiologist Sharon Peacock understood that genomic sequencing would be crucial in tracking the coronavirus, controlling outbreaks and developing vaccines, so she began working with colleagues around the country to put together a plan when there were just 84 confirmed cases in the country. The initiative helped make Britain a world leader in rapidly analyzing the genetic material from large numbers of COVID-19 infections, generating more than 40% of the genomic sequences identified to date.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Federal data scientists try to find essential truths in a big and messy sea of data

One authoritative database reports that 4% of all scientific research published last year had to do with COVID. And that produced lots and lots of data….

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Using space technology to help fight wildfires

The amount of wildfires and major weather disasters is only increasing stretching first responders and those trying to help very thin. A new program involving space technology though looks to help disaster response team get a better sense of just how much of an area has been effected.

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