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1-Nov-2004
Laser burrows into the Earth to destroy land mines
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
ONE of the great scourges of warfare is the land mine. Although an effective battlefield weapon, land mines kill or maim nearly 45,000 civilians (including 20,000 children) worldwide every year.
1-Nov-2004
Detecting bioaerosols when time is of the essence
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
About seven years ago, Livermore researchers received seed funding from the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program to develop an instrument that counters bioterrorism by providing a rapid early warning system for pathogens, such as anthrax.
1-Nov-2004
Getting the big picture
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dozens to hundreds of interconnected personal computers (PCs), stacked up row after row and operating simultaneously: that in a nutshell describes many of the latest high-performance supercomputers.
1-Nov-2004
Magnetically levitated train takes flight
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
SINCE the 1960s, transportation industry planners have sought an energy-efficient design for a train that can glide through air at speeds up to 500 kilometers per hour.
20-Oct-2004
Mice thrive despite massive genetic makeover
DOE/Joint Genome InstitutePeer-Reviewed Publication
Can you lose scores of pages from a novel and still follow the story line? In the case of the mouse's genome, or "book of life" -- and perhaps even our own -- the answer appears to be, astonishingly, "yes."
- Journal
- Nature
- Funder
- US Department of Justice, National Institutes of Health
15-Oct-2004
Quenching marital bliss
DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Niobium, mined in Brazil, needs to be exquisitely purified. It is one of 26 metals in the periodic table with natural superconducting properties.
15-Oct-2004
When it comes to accelerators, what is cold?
DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Superconductivity arises in special materials at super cold temperatures. At these temperatures--a few degrees above absolute zero--the materials' electrical resistance virtually vanishes.
14-Oct-2004
Livermore scientists join DOE consortium
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryBusiness Announcement
A Department of Energy consortium of national laboratories including Livermore and universities today signed an agreement with Second Sight Medical Products Inc. to jointly develop technology that could restore sight to those who have lost vision later in life.
6-Oct-2004
Livermore scientists predict novel melt curve of hydrogen
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryPeer-Reviewed Publication
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have discovered a new melt curve of hydrogen, resulting in the possible existence of a novel superfluid - a brand new state of matter.
- Journal
- Nature