Fertilizer Use Could Reduce Climate Benefit of Cellulosic Biofuels
According to a new, three-year study from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and Michigan State University (MSU), the use of nitrogen fertilizer on switchgrass crops can produce a sharp increase in emissions of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas up to 300 times more harmful than carbon dioxide and a significant driver of global climate change.
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are playing a central role as the nation devotes more than $500 million to understand communities of microorganisms and their role in climate science, food production and human health.
Read more about PNNL Helps Lead National Microbiome InitiativeSpinning Electrons Yield Positrons for Research
Using the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at the Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab, a team of researchers has, for the first time, demonstrated a new technique for producing polarized positrons.
Read more about Spinning Electrons Yield Positrons for ResearchPhysicist Fatima Ebrahimi Conducts Computer Simulations That Indicate the Efficiency of an Innovative Fusion Start-Up Technique
Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University has for the first time performed computer simulations indicating the efficiency of a start-up technique for doughnut-shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks.
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OLCF’s Titan supercomputer propels GE beyond the limits of gas turbine testing.
Read more about Better Combustion for Power GenerationORNL Researchers Use Strain to Engineer First High-Performance, Two-Way Oxide Catalyst
A research team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has created the first high-performance, two-way oxide catalyst and filed a patent application for the invention.
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Researchers from the University of Guelph have visited the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory for the past three years to use the facility’s bright X-rays to study the structure of edible fats, present in foods like oils, milk fat, cheese and much more.
Read more about Tasty Fat: X-rays Finding the Blueprint of Why Fat is YummyCuing Environmental Responses in Fungi
Work led by researchers at the DOE JGI in collaboration with scientists from 31 research centers and universities in 13 countries has captured the genomic sequences of the Mucoromycotina fungi, allowing researchers to build a foundation for translating the fungi genomic potential into practical applications.
Read more about Cuing Environmental Responses in FungiUpgraded PIP-II RFQ Successfully Takes First Beam
In March, the Fermilab Accelerator Division successfully sent beam through a newly commissioned linear accelerator. The brand new radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) linac, designed and built by a team of engineers and physicists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will be the start for a proposed upgrade to Fermilab’s 800-MeV superconducting linear accelerator.
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PNNL's semi-automated Advanced Battery Facility enables scientists to test out all kinds of different materials — including lithium-metal, sulfur, sodium and magnesium — to make batteries last longer and store more energy.
Read more about How to Make a Battery in 7 Easy StepsRevealing the Nature of Magnetic Interactions in Manganese Oxide
A team of scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University, Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratories, Institut Laue-Langevin in France, and the University of Warwick in England has used their recently developed mathematical approach to study the short-range magnetic interactions that they believe drive this long-range order.
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Researchers have made the first microscopic movies of liquids getting vaporized by the world’s brightest X-ray laser at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
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