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. As the nation ponders its energy choices, Americans keep asking themselves: how can the country make better use of its resources and emit fewer greenhouse gases without hurting U.S. industries? A research project at Idaho National Laboratory may have part of the answer. http://www.physorg.com/news178821091.html Technology Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:10:01 EST news178821091 (PhysOrg.com) -- The investment in nuclear power has been growing around the world over the last few years, being viewed as a means for countries to control their energy security, avoid the price fluctuations of other energy sources, and reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, but concerns are now being raised. http://www.physorg.com/news177839133.html Physics Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:50:06 EST news177839133 (PhysOrg.com) -- Idaho National Laboratory scientists have set a new world record with next-generation particle fuel for use in high temperature gas reactors (HTGRs). http://www.physorg.com/news177678729.html Technology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:00:02 EST news177678729 Engineers at the University of Leeds have developed a simple technology which can be used in existing chemical reactors to ensure "right first time" drug crystal formation. http://www.physorg.com/news177155940.html Chemistry Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:08:02 EST news177155940 A team of physicists has directly observed a reverse shock wave of light in a specially tailored structure known as a left-handed metamaterial. Although it was first predicted over forty years ago, this is the first unambiguous experimental demonstration of the effect. The research is reported in Physical Review Letters and highlighted with a Viewpoint in the November 2 issue of Physics. http://www.physorg.com/news176397143.html Physics Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:14:10 EST news176397143 (AP) -- Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news176033450.html Space & Earth Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:11:45 EST news176033450 Sam Houston State University has applied for six federal patents, three of which have already been awarded, to protect the technology and engineering associated with a "revolutionary" packaged wastewater treatment system invented by its scientists, and it has formed a company to further develop, market and sell the systems. http://www.physorg.com/news175798150.html Technology Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:51:09 EST news175798150 (AP) -- Nuclear energy, once vilified by environmentalists and facing a dim future, has become a pivotal bargaining chip as Senate Democrats hunt for Republican votes to pass climate legislation. http://www.physorg.com/news175695857.html Space & Earth Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:26:57 EST news175695857 Scientists are working on a new range of materials characterisation analysers and techniques that could help unlock the value contained in Australia's mineral deposits and improve processing performance, according to the October issue of Process. http://www.physorg.com/news174050326.html Space & Earth Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:19:34 EST news174050326 German solar energy firms are in a bind, the head of a federation said in a report due out on Monday amid concern that the new German government will abandon the sector. http://www.physorg.com/news173710837.html Technology Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:01:14 EST news173710837 A new project at Idaho National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory will improve the way scientists model the inner workings of nuclear reactors. http://www.physorg.com/news173025268.html Physics Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:40:01 EST news173025268 An ambitious project was unveiled in Germany on Wednesday to install mini gas-fired power plants in people's basements and produce as much electricity as two nuclear reactors within a year. http://www.physorg.com/news171700298.html Technology Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:32:11 EST news171700298 New research has produced the first micro-scale, in-situ, real-time observations of structural changes within alloys when under extremely high temperatures and stress. http://www.physorg.com/news170526930.html Physics Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:36:00 EST news170526930 A Canadian reactor that produced one-third of the world's supply of medical isotopes before it closed in May for repairs will remain offline at least until early 2010, nuclear authorities said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news169384753.html Medicine & Health Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:30:01 EST news169384753 (PhysOrg.com) -- If humans ever create a lunar base, one of the biggest challenges will be figuring out how to breathe. Transporting oxygen to the moon is extremely expensive, so for the past several years NASA has been looking into other possibilities. One idea is extracting oxygen from moon rock. http://www.physorg.com/news169216598.html Space & Earth Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:37:06 EST news169216598 One single atom of a certain isotope of hafnium found on Earth would prove that a supernova once exploded near our solar system. The problem is how to find such an atom - among billions of others. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have developed a laser technique that, in combination with standard techniques, may be able to do the job. http://www.physorg.com/news169209312.html Physics Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:50:01 EST news169209312 An experimental reactor that could harness nuclear fusion, the power that fuels the Sun, will begin operation in southern France in 2018, the project's governing body announced Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news164558159.html Technology Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:03:11 EST news164558159 A multi-billion-dollar project to prove whether nuclear fusion, the power that fuels the Sun, can be a practicable energy source is to be scaled down in its early stages, sources said on Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news163683173.html Technology Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:33:38 EST news163683173 Employees at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory recently reached an important milestone in developing the nation's next generation of nuclear reactors by the completion of the first of six planned Advanced Graphite Capsule (AGC) tests. http://www.physorg.com/news163091281.html Technology Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:08:26 EST news163091281 A Canadian nuclear reactor that produced about a third of the world's supply of medical isotopes has halted operation for three months due to a heavy water leak, authorities said. http://www.physorg.com/news162708897.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 May 2009 05:55:18 EST news162708897 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Washington state are reporting the surprise discovery of the oldest known sample of reactor-produced bomb-grade plutonium, a historic relic from the infancy of America`s nuclear weapons program. Their research, which also represents the first demonstration of how radioactive sodium can be used as a tool in nuclear forensics, appears in the current issue of ACS` Analytical Chemistry. http://www.physorg.com/news154894289.html Chemistry Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:11:52 EST news154894289 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA today begins testing elements of a power system that is a potential candidate to provide the energy needed to support a human outpost on the moon. http://www.physorg.com/news154360348.html Space & Earth Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:55:49 EST news154360348 A new supercomputer will help us to understand the complex physical effects taking place inside the ITER fusion reactor. The computer known as HPC-FF will deliver computing power of about 100 teraflop/s and is optimally suited for the fusion scientists' simulation programs. The European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA) has charged its member Forschungszentrum Jülich, one of the world's leading supercomputing centres, with constructing and operating the computer. http://www.physorg.com/news152538813.html Physics Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:54:08 EST news152538813 Choong-Seock Chang, a research professor at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has received a Department of Energy (DOE) award to carry out ultra large-scale computation using the Cray XT supercomputer at the department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The awarded 20 million hours of computing time -roughly equivalent to running a single-processor desktop computer for more than 2,280 years -is among the largest awards given to a single project. The computation will be using more than 100,000 processors at a time. http://www.physorg.com/news151328974.html Physics Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:49:34 EST news151328974 Interleukin-12 is a naturally occurring protein essential for the proper functioning of the human immune system. Having either too much or too little interleukin-12 may play a role in the development of many diseases, including some cancers and auto-immune disorders like Crohn's, psoriasis, and rheumatoid arthritis. In turn, modulating interleukin-12 levels could yield new therapies for those conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news147529487.html Biology Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:24:47 EST news147529487 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research carried out at MIT`s Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor may have brought the promise of fusion as a future power source a bit closer to reality, though scientists caution that a practical fusion powerplant is still decades away. http://www.physorg.com/news147528679.html Physics Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:11:19 EST news147528679 There is considerable worldwide demand for new types of reactors for the rapid and well- controlled production of high value chemicals. Charl Stemmet has developed the porous foam reactor, which has an energy efficiency ten times higher than traditional reactors at comparable production rates. Industrial partners such as BASF, DSM and Shell will make use of the research results. The project was funded by Technology Foundation STW. http://www.physorg.com/news141643536.html Chemistry Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:25:36 EST news141643536 (PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists have traded their white coats for swim shorts at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu - they've shunned the lab so they can swim out to the breakers with a test-tube built into a boogie-board. http://www.physorg.com/news141288298.html Chemistry Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:44:58 EST news141288298