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Energy-efficient house a wish come true for Santa

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Christmas costs can make us all a bit less jolly, but there are a number of ways even Ole St. Nick can save money throughout the year and help offset the high cost of the holiday.

ORNL's Roberto receives National Materials Advancement Award

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Grant and Award Announcement

Dr. James B. Roberto, deputy director for science and technology at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the National Materials Advancement Award from the Federation of Materials Societies.

Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, December 2004

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

This issue include: Cool under pressure, Better distributed energy, Stellar nova simulations and Cleaner, cheaper coal power.

Four ORNL researchers named AAAS fellows

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Grant and Award Announcement

Four researchers working at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are among the 308 to be elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Isotron licenses ORNL cancer treatment technology

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Business Announcement

Patients with cancers previously next to untreatable may have new hope because of a license agreement between Isotron of Norcross, Ga., and UT-Battelle, which manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

New instruments at ORNL reactor will lead to dramatic increase in users

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Four new instruments installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor this year make the facility an even more attractive destination for researchers around the world. With the additions, the research reactor boasts a total of seven instruments that enable scientists to study magnetic materials, alloys, superconductors and biological materials.

Piloting the pipeline

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R pal. The automated pipeline. Mass spec and proteomics. These phrases are used by ORNL researchers who probe microbes to determine what these "bugs" are made of and what drives them.

Neutron-rich mecca for biologists

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Biologists can image proteins using electron and atomic force microscopes. They can visualize the three-dimensional structure of proteins--amino-acid sequences folded in complicated ways--by using X rays at ORNL and other DOE labs.

New tools of analysis

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In the mid-1990s at Ohio State University, Dorothea Thompson studied a single gene and a single promoter regulating that gene as part of her doctoral thesis research.

First, the questions

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Scientists believe they are on the brink of solving some mysteries underlying the miracle of life.