http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Cooling a supercomputer consumes more electricity than is required to run the machine, even machines as powerful as the IBM Blue Gene/P -called Intrepid -at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. Though Intrepid is one of the fastest and most energy-efficient computers in the world, researchers at Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) are continually looking for ways to further reduce the power needed to operate the machine. http://www.physorg.com/news158943764.html Technology Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:03:07 EST news158943764 (PhysOrg.com) -- A novel system is enabling high energy physicists at CERN in Switzerland, to make production runs that integrate their existing pool of distributed computers with dynamic resources in "science clouds." The work was presented at the 17th annual conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, held in Prague, Czech Republic, March 21-27. http://www.physorg.com/news157127149.html Technology Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:26:31 EST news157127149 (PhysOrg.com) -- The process to turn propane into industrially necessary propylene has been expensive and environmentally unfriendly. That was until scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory devised a greener way to take this important step in chemical catalysis. http://www.physorg.com/news156171726.html Chemistry Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:02:33 EST news156171726 (PhysOrg.com) -- Shock waves are a well tested phenomenon on a large scale, but scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory and their collaborators from Wayne State University and Cornell University have made a breakthrough that reveals the interaction between shockwaves created by high-pressure supersonic fuel jets. http://www.physorg.com/news156088475.html Physics Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:55:12 EST news156088475 (PhysOrg.com) -- When squeezed, electrons increase their ability to move around. In compounds such as semiconductors and electrical insulators, such squeezing can dramatically change the electrical- and magnetic- properties. http://www.physorg.com/news154789238.html Physics Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:01:25 EST news154789238 (PhysOrg.com) -- A brain scan of a person experiencing an epileptic seizure looks like the Great Plains during an early evening in midsummer. Fierce electrical storms pop up seemingly at random, proliferate over large areas and subside almost as quickly as they arose. http://www.physorg.com/news154020751.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:33:06 EST news154020751 (PhysOrg.com) -- The use of uranium as a nuclear fuel and in weapons increases the risk that people may come into contact with it, and the storage of radioactive uranium waste poses an additional environmental risk. However, radioactivity is not the only problem related to contact with uranium; the toxicity of this metal is generally more dangerous to human health. http://www.physorg.com/news153632861.html Chemistry Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:48:18 EST news153632861 (PhysOrg.com) -- At the human scale, the tightly wrapped spinning columns of air in a tornado contain terrifying destructive power that ravages communities. At the nanoscale, however, closely coiled magnetic vortices hold the promise of a new generation of computers. http://www.physorg.com/news152810218.html Physics Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:17:51 EST news152810218 (PhysOrg.com) -- `Ferroelectric materials are interesting scientifically, and, while they are used for some things now, they are potentially useful for even more applications in the future,` Brian Stephenson tells PhysOrg.com. Stephenson is a scientist at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Illinois. He has been working on a project to study chemical switching in a ferroelectric film. http://www.physorg.com/news152796442.html Physics Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:28:09 EST news152796442 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used inelastic neutron scattering to show that superconductivity in a new family of iron arsenide superconductors cannot be explained by conventional theories. http://www.physorg.com/news150729937.html Physics Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:25:37 EST news150729937 Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have successfully stopped and then reaccelerated a stable ion through a newly constructed charge-breeder, bringing the CAlifornium Rare Isotope Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU) Project closer to completion. http://www.physorg.com/news150485701.html Physics Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:35:01 EST news150485701