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Showing releases 1-25 out of 161 releases.
Public Release: 2-Jul-2009
 Ecological ApplicationsPacific Northwest forests could store more carbon, help address greenhouse issues The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed primarily for that purpose through timber harvest reductions and increased rotation ages. 
US Department of Energy
Contact: Beverly Law
Public Release: 2-Jul-2009
SciencePinpointing origin of gamma rays from a supermassive black hole An international collaboration of 390 scientists reports the discovery of an outburst of very-high-energy gamma radiation from the giant radio galaxy Messier 87, accompanied by a strong rise of the radio flux measured from the direct vicinity of its super-massive black hole. The combined results give first experimental evidence that particles are accelerated to extremely high energies of tera electron Volt in the immediate vicinity of a supermassive black hole and then emit the observed gamma rays.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Enterprise Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland, STFC
Contact: Henric Krawczynski
Public Release: 1-Jul-2009
NaturePlants save the earth from an icy doom Fifty million years ago, the North and South poles were ice-free and crocodiles roamed the Arctic. Since then, a long-term decrease in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has cooled the Earth. Researchers at Yale University, the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Sheffield now show that land plants saved the Earth from a deep frozen fate by buffering the removal of atmospheric CO2 over the past 24 million years.
Yale Climate and Energy Institute, National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award
Contact: Suzanne Taylor Muzzin
Public Release: 29-Jun-2009
Story tips from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2009 Researchers have developed an innovative cooling concept that could improve vehicle performance, life expectancy and overall efficiency without increasing costs. Alumina-forming austenitic stainless steels boast an increased upper-temperature oxidation, or corrosion, limit that is 100 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit higher than that of conventional stainless steels. A new explosives detector with incredible sensitivity and a range of up to 100 meters could save lives and thwart the efforts of terrorists. Contact: Ron Walli
Public Release: 29-Jun-2009
Physical Review DFermilab's CDF observes Omega-sub-b baryon At a recent physics seminar at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab physicist Pat Lukens of the CDF experiment announced the observation of a new particle, the Omega-sub-b (Ωb). The particle contains three quarks, two strange quarks and a bottom quark (s-s-b). It is an exotic relative of the much more common proton, and has about six times the proton's mass.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Kurt Riesselmann
Public Release: 29-Jun-2009
Physical Review LettersNuTeV anomaly helps shed light on physics of the nucleus A new calculation clarifies the complicated relationship between protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus and offers a fascinating resolution of the famous NuTeV Anomaly. The calculation, published in the journal Physical Review Letters on June 26, was carried out by a collaboration of researchers from the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Tokai University and the University of Washington.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Kandice Carter
Public Release: 29-Jun-2009
71 projects fill DOE Joint Genome Institute 2010 pipeline Seventy-one projects have been approved for the DOE Joint Genome Institute's 2010 Community Sequencing Program portfolio.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Massie S. Ballon
Public Release: 26-Jun-2009
New research may help address radionuclide contamination at DOE sites Five years from now, lab scientists will be able to better determine how, when and why plutonium moves in soil and groundwater.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Anne Stark
Public Release: 26-Jun-2009
FSU research group wins $1 million grant to study nuclear fuels A Florida State University researcher has received a $1 million, five-year grant from the US Department of Energy for a study that could lead to the design of better nuclear fuels and safer and more efficient reactors to generate nuclear power.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Anter El-Azab
Public Release: 25-Jun-2009
SRNL to study applicability of solar cell coatings A project under way at the US Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory will study how special coatings that mimic structures found in nature can increase the usefulness of solar energy as a vital part of the nation's future energy strategy.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Angeline French
Public Release: 23-Jun-2009
Nano LettersSalt block unexpectedly stretches in Sandia experiments To stretch a supply of salt generally means using it sparingly. But researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Pittsburgh were startled when they found they had made the solid actually physically stretch. Contact: Neal Singer
Public Release: 22-Jun-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesBioengineers develop a microfabricated device to measure cellular forces during tissue development A Penn-led collaboration studying the physical forces generated by cells has created a tiny micron-sized device that measures and manipulates cellular forces as assemblies of living cells reorganize themselves into tissues.
National Institutes of Health, ARO Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, University of Pennsylvania, US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Jordan Reese
Public Release: 19-Jun-2009
University of Nevada, Reno mathematician receives nuclear energy grant to study reactors University of Nevada, Reno mathematics researcher and faculty member Pavel Solin can help make a nuclear reactor run more efficiently, and he will be using scientific computing to prove it as part of a national effort to develop the next generation of nuclear technologies.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Mike Wolterbeek
Public Release: 18-Jun-2009
NatureArgonne, UC scientists reach milestone in study of emergent magnetism Studying simple metallic chromium, the joint UC-Argonne team has discovered a pressure-driven quantum critical regime and has achieved the first direct measurement of a "naked" quantum singularity in an elemental magnet.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Brock Cooper
Public Release: 18-Jun-2009
Argonne technology enables high-speed data transfer GridFTP, a protocol developed by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, has been used to transfer unprecedented amounts of data over the US Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network, which provides a reliable, high-performance communications infrastructure to facilitate large-scale, collaborative science endeavors.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Eleanor Taylor
Public Release: 17-Jun-2009
ORNL finding could help electronics industry enter new phase Electronic devices of the future could be smaller, faster, more powerful and consume less energy because of a discovery by researchers at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Contact: Ron Walli
Public Release: 16-Jun-2009
Report provides assessment of national, regional impacts of climate change Researchers representing 13 US government science agencies, major universities and research institutes, including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, produced the study entitled "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States." Contact: Anne Stark
Public Release: 16-Jun-2009
Berkeley Lab scientists contribute to major new report describing climate change impacts on the US Two researchers at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Evan Mills and Michael Wehner, contributed to the analysis of the effects of climate change on all regions of the United States, described in a major report released today by the multiagency US Global Change Research Program. For the southwest region of the United States, which includes California, the report forecasts a hotter, drier climate with significant effects on the environment, agriculture and health. Contact: Allan Chen
Public Release: 16-Jun-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNanocrystals reveal activity within cells Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created bright, stable and bio-friendly nanocrystals that act as individual investigators of activity within a cell. These ideal light emitting probes represent a significant step in scrutinizing the behaviors of proteins and other components in complex systems such as a living cell
US Department of Energy
Contact: Aditi Risbud
Public Release: 16-Jun-2009
Chemistry CommunicationsExtreme makeover chemistry style In revisiting a chemical reaction that's been in the literature for several decades and adding a new wrinkle of their own, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California Berkeley have discovered a mild and relatively inexpensive procedure for removing oxygen from biomass. This procedure, if it can be effectively industrialized, could allow many of today's petrochemical products, including plastics, to instead be made from biomass.
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 16-Jun-2009
NeuroImageX-rays for early Alzheimer's disease detection Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated a new, highly detailed X-ray imaging technique that could be developed into a method for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. The technique has previously been used to look at tumors in breast tissue and cartilage in human knee and ankle joints, but this study is the first to test its ability to visualize a class of minuscule plaques that are a hallmark feature of Alzheimer's disease.
National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Cancer Institute, DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Contact: Kendra Snyder
Public Release: 16-Jun-2009
Nature Reviews MicrobiologyPlant microbe shares features with drug-resistant pathogen An international team of scientists has discovered extensive similarities between a strain of bacteria commonly associated with plants and one increasingly linked to opportunistic infections in hospital patients. The findings suggest caution in the use of the plant-associated strain for a range of biotech applications.
US Department of Energy, Laboratory Directed Research and Development, Royalty Funds, German Research Foundation, Austrian Science Foundation, INTAS, Wellcome Trust, British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Science Foundation Ireland
Contact: Karen McNulty Walsh
Public Release: 15-Jun-2009
NREL seeks proposals, announces awards for photovoltaic technology incubator program The US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is seeking project proposals as part of recently announced DOE funding to accelerate commercialization of solar energy technologies. NREL also announced partnerships with 13 US small solar businesses, which have the capability to enter the market by 2012. Contact: Heather Lammers
Public Release: 15-Jun-2009
Nozik wins UN science and technology prize for solar research Senior Research Fellow Arthur J. Nozik of the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has won the 2009 Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization (IREO) Award for Science and Technology. IREO is a new international organization related to the United Nations. Contact: Joe Verrengia
Public Release: 15-Jun-2009
Physical Review LettersCaltech scientists use high-pressure 'alchemy' to create nonexpanding metals By squeezing a typical metal alloy at pressures hundreds of thousands of times greater than normal atmospheric pressure, scientists at the California Institute of Technology have created a material that does not expand when heated, as does nearly every normal metal, and acts like a metal with an entirely different chemical composition.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, W. M. Keck Foundation
Contact: Kathy Svitil
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