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Showing releases 1-25 out of 48 releases.
Public Release: 20-Nov-2009
Lehigh receives grant to reduce cost of carbon capture at coal-fired power plants A US Department of Energy grant will help develop methods of recovering and reusing heat generated by the compression of CO2 in a carbon-capture system. The goal is to facilitate carbon capture and sequestration and limit the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere by coal-fired power plants. Unlike other modeling studies, which focus on specific components of the carbon-capture system, the Lehigh researchers will look at the entire power plant. 
US Department of Energy
Contact: Kurt Pfitzer
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
ORNL, Los Alamos pioneer new approach to assist scientists, farmers Sustainable farming, initially adopted to preserve soil quality for future generations, may also play a role in maintaining a healthy climate, according to researchers at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge and Los Alamos national laboratories. Contact: Ron Walli
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
 ScienceLike humans, ants use bacteria to make their gardens grow Leaf-cutter ants, which cultivate fungus for food, have many remarkable qualities.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Cameron Currie
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
ScienceAmaizing: Corn genome decoded In recent years, scientists have decoded the DNA of humans and a menagerie of creatures but none with genes as complex as a stalk of corn, the latest genome to be unraveled. A team of scientists led by the Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis published the completed corn genome in the Nov. 20 journal Science, an accomplishment that will speed efforts to develop better crop varieties to meet the world's growing demands for food, livestock feed and fuel.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Energy
Contact: Caroline Arbanas
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
Physical Review LettersProton's party pals may alter its internal structure A recent experiment at the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that a proton's nearest neighbors in the nucleus of the atom may modify the proton's internal structure.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, South African National Research Foundation
Contact: Kandice Carter
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
Berkeley Lab lends expertise to India to promote energy efficiency India may rank only a distant fourth in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, behind China, the United States and Russia, but its rapid economic growth rate coupled with aging and inefficient energy infrastructure suggest dire environmental consequences if "business as usual" continues. That's why experts from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been working to expand collaborations with India on energy efficiency. Contact: Julie Chao
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
ORNL, partners helping scientists deal with data deluge Vast amounts of information that could hold the key to breakthroughs in environmental research will be made readily available through a network created by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and partners. Contact: Ron Walli
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
NatureNew study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: a remarkably flat molecule made of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings much like molecular chicken wire.
Microsoft Project Q, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, US Department of Energy
Contact: David F. Salisbury
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
American Nuclear Society MeetingAdvanced nuclear fuel sets global performance record Idaho National Laboratory scientists have set a new world record with next-generation particle fuel for use in high temperature gas reactors.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Teri Ehresman
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is World's fastest An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is the scientific research community's most powerful computational tool for exploring solutions to some of today's most difficult problems. Contact: Mike Bradley
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
New funding will stimulate alternative energy research Initiatives to provide geothermal heating or power at the Pueblo of Jemez and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology campus are receiving Los Alamos National Laboratory assistance, thanks to recent American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funding.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Contact: James E. Rickman
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
Environmental Science & TechnologyGlimpsing a greener future It's the year 2060, and 75 percent of drivers in the Greater Los Angeles area have hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that emit only water vapor.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Jennifer Fitzenberger
Public Release: 15-Nov-2009
ChemosphereTiny bubbles clean oil from water Small amounts of oil leave a fluorescent sheen on polluted water. Oil sheen is hard to remove, even when the water is aerated with ozone or filtered through sand. Now, a University of Utah engineer has developed an inexpensive new method to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating microscopic bubbles that attack the oil so it can be removed by sand filters.
US Department of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact: Lee Siegel
Public Release: 13-Nov-2009
ScienceBerkeley researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics By applying epitaxial strain to thin films of bismuth ferrite, Berkeley Lab researchers have produced a lead-free alternative to the current crop of piezoelectric materials.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 12-Nov-2009
LLNL licenses carbon nanotube technology to local company Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has exclusively licensed to Porifera Inc. of Hayward a carbon nanotube technology that can be used to desalinate water, and can be applied to other liquid based separations. Contact: Anne Stark
Public Release: 12-Nov-2009
Geophysical Research LettersRecord high temperatures far outpace record lows across US Spurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows. The ratio of record highs to lows is likely to increase dramatically if emissions of greenhouse gases continue to climb.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, Climate Central
Contact: David Hosansky
Public Release: 11-Nov-2009
Nano LettersNew nano color sorters from Molecular Foundry Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry have created bowtie-shaped antennae that function as the first tunable nano color sorters, able to capture, filter and steer light at the nanoscale.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Aditi Risbud
Public Release: 9-Nov-2009
National Academy report cites Ames Laboratory's strength in new materials research The US is no longer the world leader in development of new crystalline materials, according to a report by the National Academy of Sciences. However, the report calls the US Department of Energy's national labs a bright spot, and Ames Laboratory is cited for new materials research and as a training ground for new researchers.
National Academy of Sciences
Contact: Kerry Gibson
Public Release: 9-Nov-2009
Nature MaterialsNew transparent insulating film could enable energy-efficient displays Materials scientists have found a way to transform a chemical long used as an electrical conductor a thin film insulator potentially useful in transistor technology and in devices such as electronic books.
US Department of Energy, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Science Foundation
Contact: Phil Sneiderman
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory names 6 scientists as 2009 Fellows Antoinette "Toni" Taylor, Stephen Becker, Joachim Birn, Lowell Brown, Patrick Colestock and Samuel "Tom" Picraux have been designated 2009 Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows in recognition of sustained, outstanding scientific contributions and exceptional promise for continued professional achievement. Contact: Steve Sandoval
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
November 2009 story tips from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory Fuel economy ratings for the new 2010 model year automobiles are posted at www.fueleconomy.gov, which ORNL maintains for the US Department of Energy and the US Environmental Protection Agency. A team led by ORNL's Nina Balke has moved closer to developing more rugged memory and logic devices. Heavy trucks are less heavy but just as safe and rugged because of steel rail frames. A new approach to crunching massive volumes of data uses neural networks like an artificial brain. Contact: Ron Walli
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
Science ExpressRapid supernova could be new class of exploding star UC Berkeley post-doc Dovi Poznanski was looking through seven-year-old data when he chanced upon a very strange supernova that flashed and was gone in less than a month, when 3-4 months is typical. The unusually rapid supernova appears to match the predicted behavior of a thermonuclear explosion on a white dwarf that is drawing helium from its binary companion. This mechanism is quite different from the two standard types of supernovae.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, Katzman Foundation
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 5-Nov-2009
ScienceHow size matters for catalysts University of Utah chemists demonstrated the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a solid surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed chemical reactions. The study is a step toward the goal of designing cheaper, more efficient catalysts to increase energy production, reduce Earth-warming gases and manufacture a wide variety of goods from medicines to gasoline.
US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, US Department of Energy
Contact: Lee Siegel
Public Release: 4-Nov-2009
Report on US-China collaboration on carbon capture and sequestration Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Julio Friedmann, in collaboration with the Center for American Progress, the Asia Society Center and with partner Monitor Group, today released the report, "A Roadmap for US-China Collaboration on Carbon Capture and Sequestration." Contact: Anne Stark
Public Release: 3-Nov-2009
Royal Meteorological Society's International Journal of ClimatologyStudy gives clearer picture of how land-use changes affect US climate A study by researchers from Purdue University and the universities of Colorado and Maryland concluded that greener land cover contributes to cooler temperatures, and almost any other change leads to warmer temperatures.
US Department of Energy, NASA, National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact: Greg Kline
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