Although it often goes unnoticed, Americans rely on specific industries to carry out important, life-saving tasks such as sterilizing medical equipment. These processes require powerful sources of irradiation, and in some cases, radioactive materials are used, which require special handling and can be dangerous. As a result, there is a growing need for cleaner, safer…

For the past three years, Ravi Madduri, a senior computer scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory, and his team have been working on ways to speed up analysis of genetic data to accelerate the search for associations among genetic variants — and thus causality — in determining the risks for…

Human exposure to chemicals like ammonia and chlorine can be extremely dangerous, especially when they are in a gaseous form. Port and factory workers are at the greatest risk because of the possibility of incidents happening at their workplace. The threat quickly expands to individuals who protect the homeland, such as DHS components, first responders,…