Advanced Research
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| This site covers the current supercomputer projects and the most powerful machines on the planet. These are owned by a mixture of private and government parties and the site describes the capabilities, rankings and research projects or purpose of the specific research installation. |
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| http://www.top500.org/ | |
Military Research |
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Darpa |
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| The United States government finances much of its cutting edge research through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration (Darpa). If you are interested in what the government is working on right now, or want to get a contract for a military development grant, this is the place to begin your search. | |
Government Laboratories |
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| Government laboratories in the United States recieve funding from the federal government, through science appropriations as well as through Department of Defense contracts. This network of advanced research labs is designed to keep America competitive in the international technology race. The labs are generally oriented towards research science, theoretical science or specific applications of technology. The following labs are among the most important research centers in the US. |
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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| LLNL | |
| This facility has some amazing equipment and the projects you will find here will pretty much blow your mind. Lawrence Livermore’s activities are primarily concerned with increasing international and domestic security through whatever means are available. |  |
| https://www.llnl.gov/ | |
Department of Energy
Argonne National Laboratory |
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| ANL | |
| This is the first national laboratory and is primarily dedicated to energy development and technologies. If it has to do with power, storage, transmission or applications it is probably being developed here. Basic resources and environmental resources are also ongoing areas of research. |  |
| http://www.anl.gov/ | |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
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| LBL |
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| This facility conducts unclassified research in a wide variety of disciplines with an emphasis on the micro and nano scale worlds. Genomes, energy sciences, molecular and nanotechnological applications are primary areas of research. |  |
| http://www.lbl.gov/ | |
Sandia |
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| Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Concerned with development of national security technologies such as nuclear weapons, military hardware and energy concerns most research coming out of Sandia is highly classified. Sandia National Laboratories has reported working on biosciences, sensors, supply chain technologies and other defense related applications. |  |
| http://www.sandia.gov/ | |
Los Alamos |
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| Los Alamos Research Center. | |
| Under the auspices of the National Nuclear Safety Administration, Los Alamos tends to emphasize battlefield and high energy system technologies. Recent concerns involve working with informational security |  |
| http://www.lanl.gov/ | |
Oakridge |
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| ORNL | |
| ORNL or the Oakridge Research National Laboratory, is currently working on energy applications, nanotechnology, advanced materials, biological sciences and neutron physics. With an emphasis on basic research, Oakridge is highly involved in the governments advanced materials research operations. |  |
| http://www.ornl.gov/ | |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
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| Brookhaven |
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| Suitably located on Technology Street, the Brookhaven National Laboratory has a strong emphasis on biological research including life sciences, computational biology, and other small scale operations. Interestingly, Brookhaven is at the forefront of physics including quantum chromodynamics, high power x-rays designed to make detailed nanoscience studies and work with nanoscale materials. Medicine and geophysics also fall within Brookhaven’s charter. |
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| http://www.bnl.gov | |
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
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| Fermilab | |
| Home of the LHC or large hadron collider. Yes, that is the machine that recently was accused of having the potential to blow up the world by creating a black hole... Dedicated to pure particle physics, Fermilab is a physicists dream come true as the half billion dollar machine uses proton scale high energy collisions in the search for new particles, black holes, and other unexplained aspects of physics. Fermilab is now involved in something known as Project X. |  |
| http://www.fnal.gov/ | |
Idaho National Laboratory |
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| INL. | |
| At the cutting edge of robotics technology, the Idaho National Laboratory or INL, is an asset of the department of energy (DOE). The INL also works with the requisite materials sciences involved in advanced robotics as well as broad research programs in agriculture, biotechnologies, polymers, advanced reactors and a number of other scientific disciplines | |
| http://www.inl.gov | |
Global Advanced Research Centers |
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| Other Facilities | |
| Throughout the world there are a number of vital scientific research facilities, including advanced energy projects such as high energy physics oriented particle accelerators, to observatories, mass computational projects which are spread across the internet, and even an expirimental fusion test reactor. These advanced research labs are important to the future energy and food security of the global populace, and offer some hope for mankind to be free of the ecological niche of the home planet. If there is hope of reaching the stars, then advanced research projects will give the information, tools and new observations that will garner the insights that our world needs to advance into the future. | |
