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Showing releases 76-100 out of 190 releases.
Public Release: 6-Oct-2009
 Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPrion study reveals first direct information about the protein’s molecular structure A collaboration between scientists at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco, has led to the first direct information about the molecular structure of prions. In addition, the study has revealed surprisingly large structural differences between natural prions and the closest synthetic analogs that scientists have created in the lab. 
National Institutes of Health, Fairchild Foundation, G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation, National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Jennifer O'Brien
Public Release: 6-Oct-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesGoing green on hold: Man-made activities can affect 'blue haze,' world's weather "Blue haze," a common occurrence that appears over heavily forested areas around the world, is formed by natural emissions of chemicals, but human activities can worsen it to the point of affecting the world's weather and even cause potential climate problems, according to a study led by a Texas A&M University researcher.
Welch Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Renyi Zhang
Public Release: 5-Oct-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesFirst direct information about the prion's molecular structure reported A collaboration between scientists at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco, has led to the first direct information about the molecular structure of prions. In addition, the study has revealed surprisingly large structural differences between natural prions and the closest synthetic analogs that scientists have created in the lab.
National Institutes of Health, Fairchild Foundation, G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation, National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: David F. Salisbury
Public Release: 2-Oct-2009
There's still time to cut the risk of climate catastrophe, MIT study shows A new analysis of climate risk, published by researchers at MIT and elsewhere, shows that even moderate carbon-reduction policies now can substantially lower the risk of future climate change. It also shows that quick, global emissions reductions would be required in order to provide a good chance of avoiding a temperature increase of more than 2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level -- a widely discussed target.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Contact: Patti Richards
Public Release: 1-Oct-2009
8th Annual HUPO World Congress on Proteomics and Human Health: Environment and DiseaseHuman Proteome Organization honors PNNL scientist Laboratory and Battelle Fellow Dick Smith of the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized by the Human Proteome Organization for his many accomplishments in pioneering the development of proteomics tools.
Human Proteome Organization
Contact: Mary Beckman
Public Release: 1-Oct-2009
CellScientists decipher missing piece of first-responder DNA repair machine Scientists from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Scripps Research Institute have uncovered the role played by the least-understood part of a first-responder molecule that rushes in to bind and repair breaks in DNA strands, a process that helps people avoid cancer.
National Institutes of Health, DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Contact: Dan Krotz
Public Release: 1-Oct-2009
Journal of American Chemical SocietyUT Knoxville and ORNL researchers reveal key to how bacteria clear mercury pollution Mercury's persistent and toxic presence in the environment has flummoxed scientists for years in the quest to find ways to mitigate the dangers posed by the buildup of its most toxic form, methylmercury. A new discovery by scientists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, however, has shed new light on one of nature's best mercury fighters: bacteria.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Jay Mayfield
Public Release: 1-Oct-2009
First light for BOSS -- a new kind of search for dark energy BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is the most ambitious attempt yet to map the expansion history of the Universe using the technique known as baryon acoustic oscillation. Part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, BOSS achieved "first light" on the night of Sept. 14-15, when it acquired data with its upgraded spectrographic system across the entire focal plane of the Sloan Foundation telescope at Apache Point Observatory.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, SDSS-III Participating Institutions, National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 1-Oct-2009
ScienceOldest hominid skeleton provides new evidence for human evolution A Los Alamos National Laboratory geologist is part of an international research team responsible for discovering the oldest nearly intact skeleton of Ardipithecus ramidus, who lived 4.4 million years ago. The discovery reveals the biology of the first stage of human evolution better than anything seen to date. Contact: James Rickman
Public Release: 1-Oct-2009
ScienceNew material could expand applications and lower costs for solid oxide fuel cells A new ceramic material described in this week's issue of the journal Science could help expand the applications for solid oxide fuel cells -- devices that generate electricity directly from a wide range of liquid or gaseous fuels without the need to separate hydrogen.
US Department of Energy
Contact: John Toon
Public Release: 29-Sep-2009
Spallation Neutron Source first of its kind to reach megawatt power The US Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source, already the world's most powerful facility for pulsed neutron scattering science, is now the first pulsed spallation neutron source to break the one-megawatt barrier. Contact: Bill Cabage
Public Release: 28-Sep-2009
ASU has earned more than $32 million in Federal stimulus research grants Arizona State University researchers to date have received more than $32 million in stimulus package research grants. For ASU, which has played a very active role in attracting this additional funding, much of these research funds have gone for projects that meet challenges currently confronting society.
National Institutes of Health, US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Skip Derra
Public Release: 25-Sep-2009
High-tech nuke detectors check Puget Sound small vessels for WMD More than 300 trained maritime law enforcement and first responder personnel from federal, state, local and tribal agencies participated in an operational maritime exercise in Puget Sound this week. Maritime law enforcement and first responders conducted non-intrusive small vessel radiological screenings at three Puget Sound security zones located at Admiralty Inlet, Bellingham Bay and North Skagit Bay.
US Department of Homeland Security
Contact: Geoffrey Harvey
Public Release: 24-Sep-2009
Brookhaven Lab's Joanna Fowler to be awarded National Medal of Science Joanna Fowler, a senior chemist and director of the Radiotracer Chemistry, Instrumentation and Biological Imaging Program at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will be awarded the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony on October 7. She is one of nine researchers named by President Barack Obama to receive the nation's highest award for lifetime achievement in science.
US Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Diane Greenberg
Public Release: 24-Sep-2009
Physical Review LettersSuperheavy element 114 confirmed by Berkeley Lab nuclear scientists Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have confirmed the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, first claimed to have made it. The search for 114 has long been a key part of the quest for nuclear science's hoped-for Island of Stability.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 24-Sep-2009
PNNL chemist earns NIH New Innovator Award An analytical chemist at the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized with a National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award. The award will support Wei-Jun Qian's drive to make new research and clinical diagnostic tools that are dramatically more sensitive, reliable and faster than current technologies.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Mary Beckman
Public Release: 24-Sep-2009
New INL project will improve nuclear reactor simulations Researchers from Idaho National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory, led by INL's Giuseppe Palmiotti, won a competitive grant from the US Department of Energy's Office of Science. The researchers will use the money to develop more accurate, and more universally applicable, nuclear reactor simulations. As a result, engineers should be able to design better, more efficient reactors down the road.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Michael Wall
Public Release: 24-Sep-2009
New INL project tackles nuclear fuel recycling science A new research project at Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory will use an innovative approach to learn how to get more use from nuclear fuel. INL has won a competitive research grant that could help nuclear fuel be recycled or used for longer periods of time to produce more energy. The INL team in Idaho will collaborate with scientists at the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System user facility in Illinois.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Nicole Stricker
Public Release: 24-Sep-2009
ScienceCatalytic Catamarans: Common industrial catalyst sports rafts made of platinum Catalysts convert useless or unwanted chemicals into useful or more desirable ones. Research in this week's Science reveals new, important details about a common catalyst: chemically reactive platinum atoms group into rafts that float above the supporting surface, providing ample space for catalytic reactions. The new work from DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory yields insights into how to improve the industrial catalyst for oil refining, chemicals processing and environmental uses.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Mary Beckman
Public Release: 23-Sep-2009
Symposium on Accelerators for America's FutureNorm Augustine to keynote symposium on accelerators for America's future On Oct. 26, the US Department of Energy's Office of Science will host a Symposium on Accelerators for America's Future in Washington, D.C. The symposium will focus on challenges and opportunities in maximizing the potential of next-generation accelerator technologies to energize the US economy, strengthen American competitiveness, and help the nation achieve more in science, industry, medicine, energy and the environment, and national security. Contact: Jeff Sherwood
Public Release: 22-Sep-2009
University of Incheon/Berkeley Lab joint research on environmental-friendly energy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and representatives of South Korea's University of Incheon have agreed to explore the potential for joint scientific research in energy, biology, accelerators, cosmology and space, in which the university would provide facilities and Berkeley Lab would provide research programs. Contact: June Choi
Public Release: 22-Sep-2009
Astrophysical JournalComputer code gives astrophysicists first full simulation of star's final hours The precise conditions inside a white dwarf star in the hours leading up to its explosive end as a Type Ia supernova are one of the mysteries confronting astrophysicists studying these massive stellar explosions. Now a team of astrophysicists and mathematicians at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has created the first full-star simulation of the hours preceding the largest thermonuclear explosions in the universe.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Jon Bashor
Public Release: 22-Sep-2009
2009 Micro Nano Breakthrough ConferenceA flash of light turns graphene into a biosensor After learning how DNA interacts with the novel nanomaterial graphene, researchers propose a DNA-graphene nanoscaffold be used as a biosensor to diagnose diseases, detect toxins in tainted food and detect pathogens in biological weapons, among other applications.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Franny White
Public Release: 22-Sep-2009
6th Annual Micro Nano Breakthrough ConferenceA splash of graphene improves battery materials Researchers have found that graphene, sheets of carbon one atom thick, improves the performance of titanium dioxide as a lithium battery electrode.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Mary Beckman
Public Release: 21-Sep-2009
Ames Laboratory scientist using low-gravity space station lab to study crystal growth Ames Laboratory metallurgist Rohit Trivedi will soon be studying how crystals grow in the low gravity on board the International Space Station. Trivedi will use a mini lab known as DECLIC -- DEvice for the study of Critical LIquids and Crystallization -- to gain insight into how crystals form as the material goes from liquid to solid.
NASA
Contact: Kerry Gibson
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