In the News
External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
Innovation News Network reports on the DOE's announcement of $159 million in funding for 12 Phase II research projects under the U.S. Genesis Mission. The projects will use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery in areas including energy, computing, and fundamental physics. The article highlights a project led by Northeastern University at FRIB to develop an AI-powered assistant that automates and streamlines particle separator operations, improving safety and efficiency while potentially freeing up hundreds of hours of research time each year.
Pulse 2.0 reports on the DOE's announcement of $159 million in funding for 12 Phase II research projects under the U.S. Genesis Mission. The projects will use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery in areas including energy, computing, and fundamental physics. The article highlights a project led by Northeastern University at FRIB to develop an AI-powered assistant that automates and streamlines particle separator operations, improving safety and efficiency while potentially freeing up hundreds of hours of research time each year.
Science reports on the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) second round of U.S. Genesis Mission awards, including $159 million for 12 three-year projects that will use artificial intelligence (AI) to advance scientific research. Among the projects is an effort led by Northeastern University to develop an AI system to help operate FRIB. The project aims to improve accelerator operations and provide hundreds of additional hours of beam time for scientific experiments each year.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have developed CHICOX, a new detector designed to enable highly sensitive studies of nuclear shapes. CHICOX and the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA) will be hosted at FRIB, where access to beams of rare isotopes will allow researchers to study increasingly exotic nuclei and advance understanding of nuclear structure.
For a long time there has been a question about the levels of one particular element - strontium, which makes fireworks burn bright red and is used in glow-in-the-dark paint. A new paper published in Nature Communications Physics from a large group of researchers led by Caley M. Harris, a graduate student at FRIB and Michigan State University, thinks they have found an answer for why that particular elemental level was skewed - and doing so required some very elaborate laboratory testing.
Niowave, founded in 2005 as a spinoff from what is now known as the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University, plans to construct a new facility in Clinton County to expand operations in Mid-Michigan. The facility will house six new linear particle accelerators that will enable increased production of actinium-225, a key isotope for targeted alpha therapy.
Niowave, a company founded in 2005 as a spinoff from what is now FRIB at Michigan State University, plans to expand its medical isotope production in the Lansing area. The expansion includes a new facility that will increase production of actinium-225, an isotope used in targeted cancer therapies.
Researchers have resolved a long-standing discrepancy in measurements of nuclear size in rare-earth elements, providing new insights into how nuclear charge radii change between neighboring elements. The study, published in Nature Communications, included FRIB faculty member Witek Nazarewicz and found that current nuclear theory cannot fully explain the unexpectedly large differences observed, providing new constraints for future experimental and theoretical studies.
A grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation will support MSU’s Integrated Diamond and Carbon Research in Space Applications (IDiCaRS), designed to accelerate the development and testing of semiconductor technologies for these extreme environments. The new facility will leverage existing MSU capabilities and partnerships, including FRIB.
Michigan State University will establish a new research facility focused on developing electronics that can withstand radiation in space, supported by a $20 million U.S. National Science Foundation grant. Researchers will develop diamond-based chips and test them at FRIB, with potential applications for spacecraft as well as communications technology and other electronics on Earth.
Scientists at FRIB and the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) have helped resolve a key uncertainty in the nuclear physics reaction that helps understand how strontium is formed in the stars.
A research team has reported the first experimental investigation of a nuclear physics reaction essential for understanding how the element strontium is produced in stars—specifically in stellar environments where traditional explanations for its formation fall short. The project was led by Caley Harris, a former graduate student at FRIB.
