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Argonne Researchers Posit Way to Locally Circumvent Second Law of Thermodynamics
One implication for the research could be a way to one day remotely power a device — that is, the energy expended to light the lamp could take place anywhere.
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Cancer's Big Data Problem
Researchers at Argonne, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Oak Ridge National Laboratories are using the DOE supercomputers and sophisticated computational models to find patterns in large datasets of cancer data, seeking to understand key protein interactions, predict drug response and automate patient information extraction to inform treatment strategies.
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Unraveling the Science Behind Biomass Breakdown
A team led by Jeremy Smith, a University of Tennessee (UT)–ORNL Governor’s Chair and the director of the UT–ORNL Center for Molecular Biophysics (CMB), used computer simulations to uncover the chemical reaction that helps break down biomass for biofuel.
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Ames National Laboratory Scientists Gain Insight on Mechanism of Unconventional Superconductivity
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory and partner institutions conducted a systematic investigation into the properties of the newest family of unconventional superconducting materials, iron-based compounds.
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Sarah Cousineau: Accelerating the Field of Physics, Literally
Physicist Sarah Cousineau oversees beam physics research efforts creating neutrons for scientific research at the SNS accelerator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and she oversees the next generation of physicists at the nearby University of Tennessee.
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Building a Room Clean Enough to Make Sensors to Find Light From the Birth of the Universe
Work is underway at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory on a new "clean room." The new lab will be specially suited for building parts for ultra-sensitive detectors — such as those to carry out improved X-ray research, or for the South Pole Telescope to search for light from the early days of the universe.
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‘Super Yeast’ Has the Power to Improve Economics of Biofuels
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) have found a way to nearly double the efficiency with which Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a commonly used industrial yeast strain, converts plant sugars to biofuel.
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Ames Laboratory to Receive $3 Million to Develop Instrument to Study Plant Cell Walls
A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory will be developing new instrumentation aimed at determining the chemical and structural makeup of plant cell walls to better understand how to convert plant material into bio-energy.
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With Designer Lignin, Biofuels Researchers Reproduced Evolutionary Path
New Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center-led study shows that poplar trees and many other plants from all over the phylogenetic tree have actually evolved to naturally produce zip-lignin.
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Scientists Find Static "Stripes" of Electrical Charge in Copper-Oxide Superconductor
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated that static, as opposed to fluctuating, charge stripes coexist with superconductivity in a cuprate when lanthanum and barium are added in certain amounts.
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Crystal Clear Imaging: Infrared Brings to Light Nanoscale Molecular Arrangement
A team of researchers working at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has demonstrated infrared imaging of an organic semiconductor known for its electronics capabilities, revealing key nanoscale details about the nature of its crystal shapes and orientations, and defects that also affect its performance.
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Planetarium Show Brings ‘Phantom’ Matter to Life
Berkeley Lab collaborated with other national labs, universities, and international research institutions on the production of a new planetarium show, “Phantom of the Universe,” designed to immerse audiences in the search for dark matter.
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