The agency will make funding available to research teams looking to solve the scientific challenges underpinning next-generation energy technologies.

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Scientific discovery rarely arrives in a single, dramatic moment. It usually emerges through careful experiments, revised equations, unexpected field observations, and years of incremental progress.