News tagged with national laboratory
ALCF working to get more science per watt
Apr 14, 2009 |
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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. ...
Argonne cloud computing helps scientists run high energy physics experiments
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Scientists discover new platinum catalysts for the dehydrogenation of propane
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Scientists reveal interaction between supersonic fuel spray and its shock wave
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Turning sunlight into liquid fuels (Video)
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For millions of years, green plants have employed photosynthesis to capture energy from sunlight and convert it into electrochemical energy. A goal of scientists has been to develop an artificial ...
Los Alamos researchers create 'map of science'
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have produced the world's first Map of Science—a high-resolution graphic depiction of the virtual trails scientists leave behind when they retrieve ...
World's largest laser gears up for ignition experiments
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Construction of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world's largest and highest-energy laser system, was essentially completed on Feb. 26, when technicians at Lawrence Livermore National ...
A new way to assemble cells into 3-D microtissues
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory can now control how cells connect with one another in vitro and assemble themselves into three-dimensional, multicellular ...
Recent Drug Use Masks Cocaine Abusers' Cognitive Impairment
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent cocaine use may hide some of the cognitive deficits commonly experienced by individuals addicted to cocaine, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory ...
Researchers discover a potential on-off switch for nanoelectronics
Mar 03, 2009 |
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As electronic circuits shrink from finely etched lines in silicon wafers to nearly elusive proportions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University ...
Scientists pinpoint mechanism to increase magnetic response of ferromagnetic semiconductor
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(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- ...
LLNL signs agreement with Siemens to improve wind energy efficiency
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has signed an agreement with Siemens Energy Inc. to provide high-resolution atmospheric modeling capabilities to improve the efficiency of wind farm sites, turbine design and wind farm ...
Nanoparticle toxicity doesn't get wacky at the smallest sizes
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The smallest nano-sized silica particles used in biomedicine and engineering likely won't cause unexpected biological responses due to their size, according to work presented today. The result should allay ...
Neural modeling helps expose epilepsy's triggers
Feb 16, 2009 |
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(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 ...
A Pocketful of Uranium: Construction of a Selective Uranium-Binding Protein
Feb 12, 2009 |
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(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, ...
