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Showing releases 1-25 out of 53.
Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
 Nature Climate ChangeUCI-led team develops more accurate model of climate change's effect on soil Scientists from UC Irvine and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have developed a new computer model to measure global warming's effect on soil worldwide that accounts for how bacteria and fungi in soil control carbon. 
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Andrea Burgess
Public Release: 1-Aug-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesGeoscientists unearth mineral-making secrets potentially useful for new technologies Proteins have gotten most of the attention in studies of how organic materials control the initial step of making the first tiny crystals that organisms use to build structures that help them move and protect themselves. Virginia Tech researchers have discovered that certain types of sugars, known as polysaccharides, may also control the timing and placement of minerals that animals use to produce hard structures.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: John Pastor
Public Release: 29-Jul-2013
Field test could lead to reducing CO2 emissions worldwide An injection of carbon dioxide, or CO2, has begun at a site in southeastern Washington to test deep geologic storage. Battelle researchers based at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are injecting 1,000 tons of CO2 one-half mile underground to see if the greenhouse gas can be stored safely and permanently in ancient basalt flows.
Department of Energy
Contact: Geoff Harvey
Public Release: 26-Jul-2013
Alternative-energy team wins US Department of Energy poster competition using only small words Using only cartoons, drawings, photos, and the 1,000 most-commonly-used words in the English language, an alternative-energy team has taken first prize in a US DOE poster contest. The Penn State team's poster, titled "Powering Your Car with Sunlight," was selected as the overall winner out of 31 submissions. The poster explains how energy from the Sun is captured by plants and stored in plant cell walls as energy that could be used to power cars.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Barbara K. Kennedy
Public Release: 25-Jul-2013
PLOS ONEMicrobial who-done-it for biofuels A multi-institutional collaboration led by researchers with the Joint BioEnergy Institute and Joint Genome Institute has developed a promising technique for identifying microbial enzymes that can effectively deconstruct biomass into fuel sugars under refinery processing conditions.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 19-Jul-2013
Nano LettersPurple sunlight eaters A protein found in the membranes of ancient microorganisms that live in desert salt flats could offer a new way of using sunlight to generate environmentally friendly hydrogen fuel, according to a new study by researchers at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Jared Sagoff
Public Release: 18-Jul-2013
Nano LettersStanford scientists break record for thinnest light-absorber Stanford scientists have built the thinnest, most efficient absorber of visible light on record, a nanosize structure that could lead to less-costly, more efficient, solar cells.
US Department of Energy/Center on Nanostructuring for Efficient Energy Conversion, Marcus & Amalia Wallenberg Foundation
Contact: Mark Shwartz
Public Release: 14-Jul-2013
NatureBoldly illuminating biology's 'dark matter' Microbial dark matter comprises the invisible infrastructure of life that can have profound influences on the most significant environmental processes. By employing next generation DNA sequencing of single cell genomes, researchers are systematically filling in the bacterial and archaeal tree of life's uncharted branches. An international collaboration led by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute has published the most recent findings from exploring microbial dark matter July 14, 2013, in the journal Nature.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: David Gilbert
Public Release: 11-Jul-2013
Proceedings of the Royal Society B50-year-old assumptions about strength muscled aside New understanding of where muscles get their power from turns 50 years of strength belief on its head. New insight could aid everything from bodybuilding to cardiac care.
Department of Energy, NIH, National Science Foundation
Contact: Tona Kunz
Public Release: 10-Jul-2013
Wind power does not strongly affect greater prairie chickens, 7-year study finds Wind power development does not ruffle the feathers of greater prairie chicken populations, according to a seven-year study from a Kansas State University ecologist and his team. They found that grassland birds are more affected by rangeland management practices and by the availability of native prairie and vegetation cover at nest sites.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Brett Sandercock
Public Release: 9-Jul-2013
SWiFT commissioned to study wind farm optimization The U.S. Department of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories and Texas Tech University commissioned the DOE/Sandia Scaled Wind Farm Technology facility today at the Reese Technology Center in Lubbock, Texas. The SWiFT is the first public facility of its kind to use multiple wind turbines to measure how wind turbines interact with one another in a wind farm.
Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Contact: Stephanie Holinka
Public Release: 9-Jul-2013
Nature CommunicationsWildfires may contribute more to global warming than previously predicted Wildfires produce a witch's brew of carbon-containing particles, as anyone downwind of a forest fire can attest. But measurements taken during the 2011 Las Conchas fire near Los Alamos National Laboratory show that the actual carbon-containing particles emitted by fires are very different than those used in current computer models, providing the potential for inaccuracy in current climate-modeling results.
Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Nancy Ambrosiano
Public Release: 8-Jul-2013
New PhytologistGetting to the root of the matter Plant molecular biologists go looking for the genetics of poplar root growth in low-nitrogen soil and wind up with a model for genetic interaction.
US Department of Energy, US Department of Agriculture, Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research
Contact: Victor Busov
Public Release: 2-Jul-2013
July 2013 story tips These tips are about: ENERGY – Big voltage, little package METALLURGY - Graphite foam expansion ENERGY – CoNNECT promotes savings MATERIALS - Safer batteries CLIMATE - Blogging from the Arctic. Contact: Ron Walli
Public Release: 2-Jul-2013
Journal of the American Chemical SocietyNew catalyst could cut cost of making hydrogen fuel A discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison may represent a significant advance in the quest to create a "hydrogen economy" that would use this abundant element to store and transfer energy.
US Department of Energy/Basic Energy Sciences Program
Contact: Song Jin
Public Release: 27-Jun-2013
Power for seaports may be the next job for hydrogen fuel cells Providing auxiliary hydrogen power to docked or anchored ships may soon be added to the list of ways in which hydrogen fuel cells can provide efficient, emissions-free energy. Hydrogen fuel cells are already powering mobile lighting systems, forklifts, emergency backup systems and light-duty trucks, among other applications. Now, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have found that hydrogen fuel cells may be both technically feasible and commercially attractive as a power source for ships at berth.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Mike Janes
Public Release: 26-Jun-2013
Energy & Environmental ScienceGetting the carbon out of emissions MIT researchers propose method to remove carbon from emissions that could be more efficient than previous systems and easier to retrofit in existing power plants.
Siemens AG, US Department of Energy
Contact: Sarah McDonnell
Public Release: 26-Jun-2013
PLOS ONESalmonella infection is a battle between good and bad bacteria in the gut A new study in PLOS ONE that examined food poisoning infection as-it-happens in mice revealed harmful bacteria, such as a common type of Salmonella, takes over beneficial bacteria within the gut amid previously unseen changes to the gut environment. The results provide new insights into the course of infection and could lead to better prevention or new treatments.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Mary Beckman
Public Release: 20-Jun-2013
MutagenesisBerkeley Lab confirms thirdhand smoke causes DNA damage A study led by researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found for the first time that thirdhand smoke -- the noxious residue that clings to virtually all surfaces long after the secondhand smoke from a cigarette has cleared out -- causes significant genetic damage in human cells.
Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program
Contact: Julie Chao
Public Release: 19-Jun-2013
Molecular Systems BiologyExpressly unfit for the laboratory A new Berkeley Lab study challenges the orthodoxy of microbiology, which holds that in response to environmental changes, bacterial genes will boost production of needed proteins and decrease production of those that aren't. The study found that for bacteria in the laboratory there was little evidence of adaptive genetic response.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 18-Jun-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNovel enzyme from tiny gribble could prove a boon for biofuels research Researchers from the United Kingdom, the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the University of Kentucky have recently published a paper describing a novel cellulose-degrading enzyme from a marine wood borer Limnoria quadripunctata, commonly known as the gribble.
US Department of Energy
Contact: David Glickson
Public Release: 14-Jun-2013
International Society for Microbial Ecology JournalBerkeley Lab team uncovers secrets of biological soil crusts A team of Berkeley Lab researchers has performed molecular level analysis of desert biological soil crusts -- living ground cover formed by microbial communities -- to reveal how long-dormant cyanobacteria become activated by rainfall then resume dormancy when the precipitation stops.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 12-Jun-2013
Journal of the American Chemical SocietyDiscovery of new material state counterintuitive to laws of physics Dense materials made porous, doubling the number of nanotraps for use as water filters, chemical sensors, sequestration, hydrogen fuel cell storage, drug delivery, and catalysis.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Tona Kunz
Public Release: 12-Jun-2013
Nature CommunicationsQuestions rise about seeding for ocean C02 sequestration A study suggests that iron fertilization, the process of putting iron into the ocean to encourage the growth of C02 capturing alga blooms, could backfire.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Tona Kunz
Public Release: 12-Jun-2013
NatureGenetic maps of ocean algae show bacteria-like flexibility A seven-year effort by 75 researchers from 12 countries to map the genome of the coccolithophore, Emiliania huxleyi, has revealed a set of core genes that mix and match with a set of variable genes that likely allows E. huxleyi, or Ehux, to adapt to different environments. Their results are described in the latest issue of Nature.
US Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute
Contact: Kim Martineau
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