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NSLS-II Project Beamline Conceptual Designs

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The NSLS-II Experimental Facilities Division achieved an important milestone in September when the conceptual design reports for the initial six project beamlines were completed and submitted to NSLS-II management.


Contracts Awarded for Production of NSLS-II Storage Ring Magnets

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- All seven contracts for the production of the NSLS-II storage ring magnets have now been awarded -- a significant milestone for the project. The magnets -- 750 in total -- will be made by vendors in the United ...


Metal Deficit in Mouse Brain Plaques Guides Direction of Human Alzheimer's Disease Research

Metal Deficit in Mouse Brain Plaques Guides Direction of Human Alzheimer's Disease Research

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Minuscule plaques in the brains of mice with Alzheimer's disease contain much less metal than the brains of affected humans, according to a study conducted at the NSLS. This surprising finding ...


Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer

Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 28

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a single layer ...


PhD student solves decade-long mystery of magnetism

PhD student solves decade-long mystery of magnetism

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (32) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A PhD student from the London Centre for Nanotechnology has won a prize for solving a decade-long mystery central to understanding modern magnetic systems.


E. coli

Genomes of Two Popular Research Strains of E. coli Sequenced

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers from the United States, Korea, and France has sequenced and analyzed the genomes of two important laboratory strains of E. coli bacteria, one used to study ...


Popping the Cork on Biofuel Agriculture

Popping the Cork on Biofuel Agriculture

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a novel enzyme responsible for the formation of suberin -- the woody, waxy, cell-wall substance ...


Fuel cells get a boost

Fuel cells get a boost

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (17) | comments 6

Fuel cells, devices that can produce electricity from hydrogen or other fuels without burning them, are considered a promising new way of powering everything from homes and cars to portable devices like cellphones ...


Grant to Design Neutrino Detector

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A consortium led by UC Davis physics professor Robert Svoboda will design the world's largest neutrino detector under a $4.4 million contract recently awarded by the National Science Foundation.


Magnet Lab to Investigate Promising Superconductor

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Applied Superconductivity Center at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has received $1.2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to understand and enhance a new form of superconducting ...


Puzzled Physicists Solve Decade-Long Discrepancies

Puzzled Physicists Solve Decade-Long Discrepancies

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (31) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by physicists at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have resolved a decade-long puzzle that is set to have huge implications ...


Scientists seek to manage dopamine's good and bad sides

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The good, the bad and the ugly: That's a quick summary of the effects of dopamine, a natural brain chemical that's linked to pleasure, addiction and disease.


Man-Made Activities Affect Blue Haze (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Blue haze," a common occurrence that appears over heavily forested areas around the world, is formed by natural emissions of chemicals, but human activities can worsen it to the point of affecting the world's ...


New INL project will improve nuclear reactor simulations

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new project at Idaho National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory will improve the way scientists model the inner workings of nuclear reactors.


Island of Stability

Superheavy Element 114 Confirmed: A Stepping Stone to the Island of Stability

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (37) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group in Russia, ...