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Showing releases 101-120 out of 120.
Public Release: 21-Aug-2012
American Chemical Society's 244th National Meeting & ExpositionFueling nuclear power with seawater A new absorbent material may be able to soak up enough trace uranium in seawater to help fuel future nuclear power plants. Tests by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory showed the material, which was developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, can soak up more than two times the uranium than a similar material developed in Japan. 
US Department of Energy
Contact: Franny White
Public Release: 20-Aug-2012
 Physical Review LettersIt's always sunny in Caltech Lab In orbit around Earth is a wide range of satellites that we rely on for everything from television feeds to GPS navigation. Although these spacecraft soar high above storms on Earth, they are still vulnerable to weather from the sun. Large solar flares can cause widespread damage, which is why researchers at Caltech are working to learn more about the possible precursors to solar flares called plasma loops by recreating them in the lab.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Contact: Brian Bell
Public Release: 20-Aug-2012
Nature ChemistrySpeeding the search for better carbon capture Berkeley Lab researchers helped develop the first computational model to accurately predict the interactions between flue gases and a special variety of the carbon dioxide-capturing molecular systems known as metal-organic frameworks. This new model should greatly accelerate the search for new low-cost and efficient ways to burn coal without exacerbating global climate change.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 20-Aug-2012
20th Annual International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions Nuclear FusionScientist finds new way to predict heat layer troublemaker Researchers at a recent worldwide conference on fusion power have confirmed the surprising accuracy of a new model for predicting the size of a key barrier to fusion that a top scientist at the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has developed.
US Department of Energy
Contact: John Greenwald
Public Release: 20-Aug-2012
Nano LettersPatterning defect-free nanocrystal films with nanometer resolution A new process developed at MIT could enable better LED displays, solar cells and biosensors -- and foster basic physics research.
US Army Research Office, US Department of Energy, Samsung
Contact: Caroline McCall
Public Release: 20-Aug-2012
Applied Microbiology and BiotechnologyTeaching a microbe to make fuel A genetically modified organism could turn carbon dioxide or waste products into a gasoline-compatible transportation fuel.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Sarah McDonnell
Public Release: 17-Aug-2012
ChemCam laser sets its sights on first Martian target Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team have received the first photos from the instrument's remote micro imager. The successful capture of ChemCam's first 10 photos sets the stage for the first test bursts of the instrument's rock-zapping laser in the near future. Contact: James E. Rickman
Public Release: 16-Aug-2012
Future of concentrating photovoltaics focus of technology roundtable at UC Santa Barbara On July 25-26, 2012, the Institute for Energy Efficiency and the Center for Energy Efficient Materials brought together key stakeholders from the private sector, academia and government for a highly interactive, facilitated discussion to inform and focus research in the CPV field.
US Department of Energy SunShot Initiative, DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Contact: Mikaela Mennen
Public Release: 16-Aug-2012
ScienceNew form of carbon observed A team of scientists led by Carnegie's Lin Wang has observed a new form of very hard carbon clusters, which are unusual in their mix of crystalline and disordered structure. The material is capable of indenting diamond. This finding has potential applications for a range of mechanical, electronic, and electrochemical uses. The work is published in Science on Aug. 17.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Lin Wang
Public Release: 15-Aug-2012
NatureGood vibrations Using a unique optical trapping system that provides ensembles of ultracold atoms, Berkeley Lab scientists have recorded the first direct observations of distinctly quantum optical effects -- amplification and squeezing -- in an optomechanical system. Their findings point the way toward low-power quantum optical devices and enhanced detection of gravitational waves among other possibilities.
US Air Force, Office of Scientific Research, National Science Foundation
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 14-Aug-2012
The Plant CellFinding new research frontiers in a single cell Pioneering mass spectrometry methods developed at the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are helping plant biologists get their first glimpses of never-before-seen plant tissue structures. The new method opens up new realms of study, ones that might have long-ranging implications for biofuels research and crop genetics.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Laura Millsaps
Public Release: 14-Aug-2012
New study finds the US wind power market riding a wave that is likely to crest in 2012 Facing looming policy uncertainty beyond 2012, the US remained one of the fastest-growing wind power markets in the world in 2011 -- second only to China -- according to a new report released by Berkeley Lab. Driven by the threat of expiring federal incentives, new wind power installations are widely expected to be substantially higher in 2012 than in 2011, and perhaps even in excess of 2009's record build.
US Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Contact: Allan Chen
Public Release: 14-Aug-2012
Quark Matter 2012Closing in on the border between primordial plasma and ordinary matter Scientists taking advantage of the versatility and new capabilities of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, an atom smasher at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, have observed first glimpses of a possible boundary separating ordinary nuclear matter, composed of protons and neutrons, from the seething soup of their constituent quarks and gluons that permeated the early universe.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Karen McNulty Walsh
Public Release: 13-Aug-2012
Researchers work to further biofuel production without increasing food prices This fall, MU scientists are beginning a study to determine how non-food biofuel crops, such as switchgrass, grow in marginal land along the floodplains, where most crops cannot thrive. The team in the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources has received a $5.4 million grant from the US Department of Energy to further its research.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Christian Basi
Public Release: 13-Aug-2012
Nature PhotonicsNano, photonic research gets boost from new 3-D visualization technology For the first time X-ray scientists have combined high-resolution imaging with 3-D viewing of the surface layer of material using X-ray vision in a way that does not damage the sample. This new technique expands the range of X-ray research possible for biology and many aspects of nanotechnology, particularly nanofilms, photonics, and micro- and nano-electronics. This new technique also reduces "guesswork" by eliminating the need for modeling-dependent structural simulation often used in X-ray analysis.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Tona Kunz
Public Release: 12-Aug-2012
Nature PhotonicsWorld's most powerful X-ray laser beam refined to scalpel precision With a thin sliver of diamond, scientists at the DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford have transformed the Linac Coherent Light Source into an even more precise tool for exploring the nanoworld. The improvements yield laser pulses focused to higher intensity in a much narrower band of X-ray wavelengths, and may enable experiments that have never before been possible.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Andy Freeberg
Public Release: 8-Aug-2012
Nature CommunicationsNew phenomenon in nanodisk magnetic vortices New findings from a team of Berkeley Lab and Japanese scientists suggest that the road to magnetic vortex RAM might be more difficult to navigate than previously supposed, but there might be unexpected rewards as well. A study at the Advanced Light Source revealed that contrary to suppositions, the formation of magnetic vortices in ferromagnetic nanodisks is an asymmetric phenomenon.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 8-Aug-2012
The first public data release from BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Now available to the public: spectroscopic data from over 500,000 galaxies up to 7 billion light years away, over 100,000 quasars up to 11.5 billion light years away, and many thousands of other astronomical objects in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's Data Release 9. This is the first data from BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists, the largest spectroscopic survey ever for measuring evolution of large-scale galactic structure.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, SDSS-III Participating Institutions, National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 6-Aug-2012
Physical Review LettersExtreme plasma theories put to the test The first controlled studies of extremely hot, dense matter have overthrown the widely accepted 50-year-old model used to explain how ions influence each other's behavior in a dense plasma. The results should benefit a wide range of fields, from research aimed at tapping nuclear fusion as an energy source to understanding the inner workings of stars.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Andy Freeberg
Public Release: 6-Aug-2012
Energy PolicyIncreased productivity, not less energy use, results from more efficient lighting More light, rather than lower costs, should be the result of increased efficiencies of LED lighting. But productivity will increase.
Sandia/Solid-State Lighting Science Energy Frontier Research Center, US Department of Energy/Basic Energy Sciences
Contact: neal singer
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