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Showing stories 51-75 out of 133 stories.
16-Sep-2005
Practical climate financing — Using markets to drive cleaner energy production Every day, people in China get sick just from breathing the air. Many die prematurely. In economic terms, pollution costs China eight to ten percent of gross domestic product in lost productivity, according to World Bank estimates. Air pollution accounts for three-quarters of that productivity loss. Contact: Greg Koller
16-Sep-2005
Expecting the unexpected Discovering unexpected impacts from climate change is something researcher Ruby Leung is getting used to. Contact: Greg Koller
16-Sep-2005
Going where no facility has gone before A data acquisition system is being sent to Niger next year to collect climate information in this data-sparse region as part of a new user facility established by the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, ARM. Contact: Greg Koller
14-Sep-2005
Clouds help clear up global warming questions Is Earth's climate really changing? Climate researchers have answered this question with a resounding "Yes!" It is widely accepted that Earth's temperature will rise two to three degrees Celsius over the next 50 years if current fossil fuel emissions continue to grow at their present rate. The next question is how this warming trend will affect the climate--particularly water resources. Contact: Media Relations
14-Sep-2005
Putting it all together—people, technology, economics—and climate Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's climate research program was created in 1989 in response to a Presidential Initiative called the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The climate research group was formed in two places, with the Richland, Wash., group focusing on physical climate research and the Washington, D.C., group focusing on technology. Contact: Virginia Sliman
22-Aug-2005
The search for methane in Earth's mantle Petroleum geologists have long searched beneath Earth's surface for oil and gas, knowing that hydrocarbons form from the decomposition of plants and animals buried over time. Contact: Science & Technology Review
22-Aug-2005
Testing the physics of nuclear isomers FOR much of the past century, physicists have searched for methods to control the release of energy stored in an atom's nucleus. Contact: Science & Technology
19-Aug-2005
Finding the next small thing ORNL "nanoscopes" are among the tools that may help researchers construct materials as elastic and durable as a butterfly's wing. Contact: Carolyn H. Krause
19-Aug-2005
A winning couple Brian and Vicky D'Urso are the first married couple to come to ORNL as Wigner Fellows. Neither was recruited by the Laboratory. As simple as it sounds, the graduates of the California Institute of Technology found information about ORNL and the Wigner Fellowship program on the Internet. Contact: Carolyn H. Krause
19-Aug-2005
The compact linear collider As the Global Design Effort for the proposed International Linear Collider starts to take shape, an international collaboration of scientists simultaneously works on an alternative linear collider technology that pushes physics and engineering to the edge. Contact: Symmetry
24-Jun-2005
Livermore supercomputers boost scientific progress Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and elsewhere increasingly are turning to sophisticated, three-dimensional supercomputer simulations to suggest and verify their theories and to design, complement and sometimes replace experiments. Contact: Charlie Osolin
8-Mar-2005
Letting the sunshine in The outlook is sunny for the Laboratory's prospects of commercializing hybrid solar lighting (HSL). The ORNL technology uses sunlight to reduce the need for indoor electric lighting, the largest consumer of electricity in commercial buildings. Contact: ORNL Review
17-Feb-2005
Pacific Northwest lab forms Institute for Interfacial Catalysis, names director Pacific Northwest National Laboratory today launched an $8 million Institute for Interfacial Catalysis to explore the fundamental chemical changes on surfaces where catalytic reactions take place. The Department of Energy lab also announced the appointment of University of Texas at Austin chemist John M. "Mike" White as the institute's director. Contact: cannon@pnl.gov
10-Nov-2004
Piloting the pipeline R pal. The automated pipeline. Mass spec and proteomics. These phrases are used by ORNL researchers who probe microbes to determine what these "bugs" are made of and what drives them. Contact: ORNL Review
10-Nov-2004
Pathways underlying disorders Abnormalities of the face and skull rank among the most common birth defects in humans. Understanding such complex human disorders requires a systems biology approach, according to Cymbeline Culiat, a molecular geneticist in ORNL's Life Sciences Division. Contact: ORNL Review
10-Nov-2004
Sequencing the first tree genome In 2004 researchers from around the world finished sequencing the complete genome of Populus, the first tree and the third plant to have its molecular "parts list" revealed. Contact: ORNL Review
10-Nov-2004
First, the questions Scientists believe they are on the brink of solving some mysteries underlying the miracle of life. Contact: ORNL Review
10-Nov-2004
New tools of analysis In the mid-1990s at Ohio State University, Dorothea Thompson studied a single gene and a single promoter regulating that gene as part of her doctoral thesis research. Contact: ORNL Review
24-Aug-2004
From cosmetics to hydrogen storage—nanoscale materials push the frontier Suresh Baskaran develops new projects in advanced materials and manufacturing technology. This includes materials and manufacturing technology for new applications in electronics, photonics, energy conversion, vehicular structures, sensors and emissions control. Contact: PNNL Webmaster
24-Aug-2004
Soil's a natural for storing CO2 In a field outside Charleston, S.C., PNNL's Jim Amonette and his colleagues from the U.S. Forest Service and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have planted 72 pots with Sudan grass. They don't care much about the grass, however--it's the soil beneath that captures their attention. Contact: PNNL Webmaster
24-Aug-2004
PNNL co-leads Center for Chemical Hydrogen Storage Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, along with Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, will lead a new national Center for Chemical Hydrogen Storage. The new center is a step toward a "hydrogen economy"--an economy based not on the fossil fuels we use today, but on clean, abundant hydrogen fuels. It is one of three Department of Energy "Centers of Excellence" aimed at enabling use of hydrogen-powered vehicles. Contact: PNNL Webmaster
11-Aug-2004
Glimpses of global warming As greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, many questions arise concerning how fast and in what ways Earth's environment will change. For example, in the United States, will increased emissions of carbon dioxide from coal combustion in the 21 st century make the Southeast wetter or drier over the next 100 years? Will changes in temperature and moisture conditions make certain U.S. regions more vulnerable to insect-borne diseases? Contact: Carolyn Krause
9-Aug-2004
Soil's a natural for storing CO2 In a field outside Charleston, S.C., PNNL's Jim Amonette and his colleagues from the U.S. Forest Service and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have planted 72 pots with Sudan grass. They don't care much about the grass, however--it's the soil beneath that captures their attention. Contact: Ginny Sliman
12-Jul-2004
Helping water managers ensure clean and reliable supplies MOST Americans take cheap and plentiful supplies of pure drinking water for granted. Some even consider it to be an inalienable right. However, clean water sources, especially pristine underground aquifers, are being consumed at an increasing rate, and contaminants and changing patterns in rain and snowfall are threatening the adequacy of supplies. Contact: Robin Newmark
1-Jun-2004
SARS foam- Sandia foams fight SARS virus In a series of tests conducted at Kansas State University on Bovine coronavirus (BCV) -- the internationally accepted surrogate for the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus -- Sandia versions of its DF- 200 formulation fully inactivated samples in one minute or less. Contact: John German
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