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Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory February 2011

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Proposals to install hydrokinetic turbines in rivers across the US are prompting questions about the environmental impacts. Highly effective anti-virus programs for computers are a system to protect people from deadly genetically engineered biological bugs. By testing radiation detection equipment and helping establish standards, a team of ORNL researchers protects the people who keep the nation safe. What does it take to withstand the conditions of ITER, the world's largest fusion energy reactor?

Neutron analysis reveals '2 doors down' superconductivity link

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Neutron scattering analysis of two families of iron-based materials suggests that the magnetic interactions thought responsible for high-temperature superconductivity may lie "two doors down": the key magnetic exchange pairings occur in a next-nearest-neighbor ordering of atoms, rather than adjacent atoms.

Journal: Physical Review Letters

'Tall order' sunlight-to-hydrogen system works, neutron analysis confirms

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a biohybrid photoconversion system -- based on the interaction of photosynthetic plant proteins with synthetic polymers -- that can convert visible light into hydrogen fuel.

ORNL receives 2 national tech transfer awards

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Grant and Award Announcement

Two teams from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have won awards for excellence in technology transfer from the Federal Laboratory Consortium.

Neutrons 'go viral' at ORNL

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A research team from ORNL and North Carolina State University is using small angle neutron scattering to study how viruses change their structure when they move between different host species. Understanding how a virus reorganizes itself when it goes from a mosquito to a human is critical for the development of medicines that can block the spread of viruses.

New DOE bioenergy website has ORNL roots

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Business Announcement

Policy makers, industry, researchers and the public have a new way to gain and share information about biofuels with the Bioenergy Knowledge Discovery Framework, or KDF, developed by a team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and sponsored by the Department of Energy.

Natural dissolved organic matter plays dual role in cycling of mercury

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nature has a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde relationship with mercury, but researchers at the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have made a discovery that ultimately could help explain the split personality.

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory January 2011

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

This release contains story ideas from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on topics such as forensics, electricity, batteries and more.

4 ORNL scientists named American Physical Society Fellows

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Grant and Award Announcement

Four researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected to fellowship in the American Physical Society.

Supercomputing research opens doors for drug discovery

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A quicker and cheaper technique to scan molecular databases developed at the DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could put scientists on the fast track to developing new drug treatments.

Journal: Journal of Computational Chemistry