Ames Laboratory to lead effort to address shortages in rare earth and critical materials
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30-Nov-2012
Team led by Argonne National Lab selected as DOE's Batteries and Energy Storage Hub
DOE/US Department of EnergyGrant and Award Announcement
Energy Secretary Steven Chu joined Illinois dignitaries in announcing that a team led by Argonne National Laboratory was selected for an award of up to $120 million over five years to establish a new Batteries and Energy Storage Hub. The Hub -- the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research -- will combine the R&D firepower of five DOE national laboratories, five universities, and four private firms in an effort toward achieving revolutionary advances in battery performance.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
28-Nov-2012
ARPA-e awards $130 million for transformation energy technology projects
DOE/US Department of EnergyGrant and Award Announcement
Sixty six cutting-edge research projects have been selected by the Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to receive a total of $130 million in funding.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
4-Jul-2012
Statement by US Secretary of Energy on the Higgs Particle
DOE/US Department of EnergyBusiness Announcement
Congratulatory Statement by US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on the latest results of the search for the Higgs particle. Hundreds of scientists and graduate students from US institutions have played important roles in the search for the Higgs using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory.
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- US Deptartment of Energy, National Science Foundation
28-Mar-2012
In the beginning...was the beaker?
DOE/US Department of EnergyPeer-Reviewed Publication
Brookhaven Lab Scientists discover new insights into how cells duplicate their DNA.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
19-Mar-2012
A basic -- and slightly acidic -- solution for hydrogen storage
DOE/US Department of EnergyPeer-Reviewed Publication
Sometimes, solutions for hard problems can turn out to be pretty basic. That's especially true for a team of researchers at the Office of Science's Brookhaven National Laboratory, where the solution for a hard problem they were working on turned out to be pretty basic ... and also a bit acidic.
- Journal
- Nature Chemistry
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
7-Feb-2012
Energy department to launch new energy innovation hub focused on advanced batteries and energy storage
DOE/US Department of EnergyBusiness Announcement
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today plans to launch a new Energy Innovation Hub for advanced research on batteries and energy storage with an investment of up to $120 million over five years. The hub, which will be funded at up to $20 million in fiscal year 2012, will focus on accelerating research and development of electrochemical energy storage for transportation and the electric grid.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
11-Jan-2012
President Obama names Mildred Dresselhaus and Burton Richter as Enrico Fermi Award winners
DOE/US Department of EnergyGrant and Award Announcement
President Obama has named Mildred S. Dresselhaus and Burton Richter as the winners of the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the government's oldest and most prestigious awards for scientific achievement. The Presidential award carries an honorarium of $50,000, shared equally, and a gold medal.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
22-Dec-2011
DOE researchers achieve important genetic breakthroughs to help develop cheaper biofuels
DOE/US Department of EnergyPeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute announced today a major breakthrough in engineering systems of RNA molecules through computer-assisted design, which could lead to important improvements across a range of industries, including the development of cheaper advanced biofuels. Scientists will use these new "RNA machines", to adjust genetic expression in the cells of microorganisms.
- Journal
- Science
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- DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
8-Dec-2011
The world's biggest radar laboratory
DOE/US Department of EnergyBusiness Announcement
In the past year, the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility deployed 18 new scanning radars at its research sites in Oklahoma, Alaska, and the tropical western Pacific. These highly sophisticated new radars are providing extraordinary 4-dimensional information to help scientists better understand the lifecycle of clouds.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
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- 2011 AGU Fall Meeting