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It all started with 2,500 shares of H&R Block. More than four decades and hundreds of student investment managers later, the Caltech Student Investment Fund exceeds, as of November 2020, one million dollars in value. (The fund's…

The observatory will map the entire sky to study the rapid expansion of the universe after the big bang, the composition of young planetary systems, and the history of galaxies.NASA's upcoming space telescope, the Spectro-Photometer for…

To stop biodiversity loss, Canada recently committed to protecting 30% of its land and sea by 2030. But making conservation decisions about where to locate new protected areas is complicated. It depends on data both about biodiversity and…

Operators of the primary particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are getting a new tool to help them quickly address issues that can prevent it from running smoothly. A new…

Fuel economy can take a tumble when temperatures plummet, according to the Department of Energy’s 2021 Fuel Economy Guide. Compiled by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the guide includes several tips to improve a vehicle’s…

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, or CNMS, contributed to a groundbreaking experiment published in Science that tracks the real-time transport of individual molecules.A team led by the University of…

Algorithms developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory can greatly enhance X-ray computed tomography, or XCT, images of 3D-printed metal parts, resulting in more accurate, faster scans.Industrial XCT is gaining popularity as a way to…

Just dropping by for a bit: Hoary bats like the one above sometimes migrate hundreds of miles each year and can be found in almost every U.S. state. Critical pollinators and pest control creatures, bats sometimes get struck by wind…

COVID-19 Updates and Resources Pandemic Recovery Updates and InformationMaterials are foundational technology, and they will continue to be an important focus of nearly all technology development. The development and deployment of highly…

If everything moved 40,000 times faster, you could eat a fresh tomato three minutes after planting a seed. You could fly from New York to L.A. in half a second. And you’d have waited in line at airport security for that flight for 30…