The Challenge
Find important transitions with limited beam time and complex experimental data.
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Materials Science • ORNL
Neutron scattering: accelerating scientific discovery through adaptive experiments
Scientists identified a magnetic transition in real time using adaptive measurements, AI recommendations, and live visualization connected through NSDF.
How NSDF Helps
NSDF connects instruments, AI services, scientists, computing, dashboards, and provenance.
The Impact
Adaptive experiments focus beam time on the most informative measurements and accelerate discovery.
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Earth & Climate • NASA
Climate science: scaling petabyte-scale climate analytics without sacrificing scientific fidelity
High-performance analytics and AI connect large climate collections with scalable scientific workflows.
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Physics • Dark Matter
Dark matter: democratizing access to rare, high-value scientific datasets
AI-assisted discovery helps researchers search massive detector archives for rare and scientifically valuable events.
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Earth & Climate • Terrain Analytics
GEOtiled: making high-resolution terrain data practical, scalable, and reusable across continental regions
GEOtiled enables high-resolution terrain parameter production at continental scale through parallel tile processing and progressive data access.
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Material Science • Research
Materials science: revealing the internal evolution of porous materials through large-scale synchrotron imaging
AI-assisted discovery helps researchers search massive detector archives for rare and scientifically valuable events.
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Materials Science • ORNL
Neutron scattering: accelerating scientific discovery through adaptive experiments
Scientists identified a magnetic transition in real time using adaptive measurements, AI recommendations, and live visualization connected through NSDF.
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Earth & Climate • SOMOSPIE
SOMOSPIE: transforming coarse Earth observations into fine-resolution soil moisture intelligence through AI
SOMOSPIE combines satellite measurements with terrain, climate, and environmental data to generate fine-resolution soil moisture predictions through NSDF.
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Materials Science • CHESS
Synchrotron experiments: enabling autonomous AI-guided beamlines
Adaptive measurements focus on the most informative regions using remote AI recommendations and live experiment data.
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20+Facilities Connected
10+Domains
Impact Across Use Cases
Faster Experiments
Adaptive measurements focus on the most informative regions.
Broader Data Access
Distributed scientific archives become easier to discover and reuse.
Trustworthy AI
Recommendations remain connected to evidence and provenance.
Reusable Capabilities
Services developed for one domain can support many others.
Bring Your Scientific Challenge to NSDF
Are you working with a scientific instrument, distributed dataset, or AI-driven workflow? NSDF collaborates with facilities and research teams to develop reusable autonomous-science capabilities.